Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution After the Enlightenment

by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

Book Overview

Were the thirteen essays Michel Foucault wrote in 1978-1979 endorsing the Iranian Revolution an aberration of his earlier work or an inevitable pitfall of his stance on Enlightenment rationality, as critics have long alleged? Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi argues that the critics are wrong. He declares that Foucault recognized that Iranians were at a threshold and were considering if it were possible to think of dignity, justice, and liberty outside the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816699496
• ISBN13: 9780816699490
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"