Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism
Mehrzad Boroujerdi
320 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0815627262
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Language: English
Publish: December 1, 1996
Regarding the constitution of other-ness, this work examines the pedagogical, political and discursive practice of post-World war II Iranian intellectuals. It shows how clerics, secular and lay religious intellectuals confronted a dual sense of other-ness which resulted in dissent and nativism.