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Author:   Ali Mirsepassi (New York University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9781108476393

ISBN 10:   1108476392
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   13 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I. Ahmad Fardid and His Legacies: Introduction; Part II. Fardid's Life: 1. The Man and His Life; Part III. Conversations on Fardid's Life and Thought: 2. Hossein Nasr: for Fardid, Corbin was worthless, but, the Shah was great; 3. Daryush Ashuri: Fardid was not very religious; 4. Ramin Jahanbeglu: Fardid was at the center of Fardiddiyeh (Fardid and Fardiddiyeh); 5. Abbas Amanat: Fardid whom I came to know; 6. Ali Reza Meybodi: Fardid was 'Dante's Inferno'; 7. Behrouz Farnou: Fardid's thought was post-modern; 8. Ehsan Shari'ati: Fardid misunderstood Heidegger; 9. Seyyed Ali Mirfattah: 'I admired his anti-capitalism and his anti-Americanism'; 10. Mohammad Reza Jozi: Fardid's philosophy was not political; 11. Mansour Hashemi: Fardid pioneered post-Bergson philosophy in Iran; 12. Ataʼollah Mohajerani: philosophers need power; 13. Seyyed Javad Mousavi: Fardid was a great man, with many failings; 14. Abdolkarim Soroush: Fardid did not impress me at all.

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Ali Mirsepassi is Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and director of the Iranian Studies Initiative at New York University. He is the co-editor, with Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, of The Global Middle East, a book series published by Cambridge University Press, and the author of Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought (Cambridge, 2017), Political Islam, Iran and Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2011), Democracy in Modern Iran (2010) and Intellectual Discourses and Politics of Modernization (Cambridge, 2000). He also co-authored, with Tadd Fernee, Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism (Cambridge, 2014). He was a 2007–09 Carnegie Scholar and has received several awards, including a 2001 Best Researcher of the Year Award, a teaching award from Tehran University, and 2014 Award for Outstanding Service from the Institute for International Education Scholar Rescue Fund.

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