Iran's Troubled Modernity: Debating Ahmad Fardid's Legacy

ISBN-13: 9781108476393 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 380 str.

Ali Mirsepassi

Opis

Mirsepassi uses interviews with thirteen individuals to relate the colourful life and times of Ahmad Fardid and his intellectual legacy.

Spis treści

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.