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From Marx to Giddens via Weber and Habermas The politics of social thought in Iran
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In this paper, the political role of social theories in contemporary Iran is investigated, specifically focusing on how the 1979 revolution marks a passage in Iranian political and social thought and how social theories are used in contemporary Iranian society.Abstract:
This article investigates the political role of social theories in contemporary Iran. It focuses, specifically, on how the 1979 Revolution marks a passage in Iranian political and social thought fr...read more
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Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran, Ali Mirsepassi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, xii+227 pp. (ISBNÊ0-521-65997-3)
Ethical Dimensions of Music-making in Iran: Beauty in Islamic Revelations, Mysticism and Tradition
TL;DR: Amoozegar-Fassaie et al. as discussed by the authors examined the judgment of beauty and akhlāq in relation to mūsīq-e sonnatī based on an examination of language, logic, politics and metaphysics.
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Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism
TL;DR: Postel's attempt to put agency and structure against one another competitively does have a Habermasian aspiration of its own as mentioned in this paper, which is a journalist indication of "who" is reading Legitimation Crisis and other genres of modern Western philosophy in Iran.
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