God and juggernaut : Iran's intellectual encounter with modernity / Farzin Vahdat.

Author/creator Vahdat, Farzin
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoSyracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxviii, 265 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesModern intellectual and political history of the Middle East
Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East. ^A410714
Contents The nature of modernity -- Iran's experiment with modernity -- The dawn of modernity in Iran : positivist subjectivity and universalizable subjectivity -- The eclipse of universalizable subjectivity and the quest for a collective subject -- Islamic discourses and modernity -- Islamic revolutionary thought : the self as mediated subjectivity -- Postrevolutionary discourses : the contraction and expansion of subjectivity.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-253) and index.
LCCN 2002001379
ISBN0815629222
ISBN0815629478 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks DS316.4 .V34 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold