Vahdat, Farzin

God and Juggernaut: Iran's intellectual encounter with modernity/ Farzin Vahdat - Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002. - xviii, 265 p. ; 23 cm. - (Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East) .

The nature of modernity --
Iran's experiment with modernity --
The dawn of modernity in Iran : positivist subjectivity and universalizable subjectivity --
The eclipse of universalizable subjectivity and the quest for a collective subject --
The Islamic discourse and modernity --
Islamic revolutionary thought : the self as mediated subjectivity --
Postrevolutionary discourses : the contraction and expansion of subjectivity.

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Nationalism
Religion and state
Iran
Historiography
Intellectual life
Islam and politics

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