October 2016 Academic & Specialist University of Minnesota Press

Muslim International

Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

Muslim International

Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi


Hardback | Oct 2016 | University of Minnesota Press | 272pp | 215x139mm | RFB
Paperback (Trade paperback US) | Oct 2016 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816699490 | 272pp | 215x139mm | RFB | AUD$40.99, NZD$47.99

Foucault in Iran centers on the significance of Foucault's writings on the Iranian Revolution and the profound mark it left on his lectures on ethics, spirituality, and fearless speech. This interdisciplinary work will spark a lively debate in its insistence that what informed Foucault's writing was his conviction that Enlightenment rationality has not closed the gate of unknown possibilities for human societies