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" The discovery of Iran : "
Ali Mirsepassi.
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BL
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1089642
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bc10815
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English
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| Main Entry
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Mirsepassi, Ali
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The discovery of Iran : : Taghi Arani, a radical cosmopolitanism /\ Ali Mirsepassi.
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| Publication Statement
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Stanford, California :: Stanford University Press,, [2021]
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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9781503629806
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: 1503629805
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9781503629141
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : Iranian nationalism, past and present -- Transnational cosmopolitanism : Arani's life and times -- Among the nationalists in Berlin, 1922-29 -- The Persian language : a racialized national narrative -- For a radical cosmopolitan Iran -- Persian language, past and presence -- 'Erfan, reason and the nation -- Conclusion : an unfinished Iranian enlightenment
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"The Discovery of Iran examines the history of Iranian nationalism afresh through the life and work of Taghi Arani, the founder of Iran's first Marxist journal, "Donya." In his quest to imagine a future for Iran open to the scientific riches of the modern world and the historical diversity of its own people, Arani combined Marxist materialism and a cosmopolitan ethics of progress. He sought to reconcile Iran to its post-Islamic past rejected by Persian purists and romanticized by their traditionalist counterparts, while orienting its present toward the modern West in all its complex and conflicting facets. As Ali Mirsepassi shows, Arani's cosmopolitanism complicates the conventional wisdom that racial exclusivism was an insoluble feature of twentieth-century Iranian nationalism. In cultural spaces like "Donya," Arani and his contemporaries engaged vibrant debates about national identity, history, and Iran's place in the modern world. In exploring Arani's short but remarkable life and writings, Ali Mirsepassi challenges the image of Interwar Iran as dominated by the Pahlavi state to uncover fertile intellectual spaces in which civic nationalism flourished"--
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Arrānī, Taqī-- Political and social views.
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Arrānī, Taqī
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Nationalism-- Iran-- History-- 20th century.
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Cosmopolitanism-- Iran-- History-- 20th century.
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Philosophy, Marxist-- Iran-- History-- 20th century.
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Cosmopolitanism.
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Intellectual life.
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Nationalism.
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Philosophy, Marxist.
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Political and social views.
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Iran, Intellectual life, 20th century.
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Iran.
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| Dewey Classification
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335.4092
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HX385.2.A8M67 2021
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