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

Omtale

Ahmad Fardid (1910–94), an 'anti-Western' philosopher, became the self-proclaimed philosophical spokesperson for the Islamic Republic, coining the term 'Westoxication'. With thirteen interviews relating his colourful life and intellectual legacy, Mirsepassi sheds light on Iran's twentieth-century intellectual and political self-construction.