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