Persophilia : Persian culture on the global scene / Hamid Dabashi
2015, First Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #447022
ISBN: 0674504690
Contents: Distant memories of the Biblical and classical heritage -- Montesquieu, the bourgeois public sphere, and the rise of Persian liberal nationalism -- Sir William Jones, Orientalist philology, and Persian linguistic nationalism -- Goethe, Hegel, Hafez, and company -- From romanticism to pan-Islamism to transcendentalism -- Nietzsche, Hafez, Mozart, Zarathustra, and the making of a Persian Dionysus -- Edward FitzGerald and the rediscovery of Omar Khayyám for Persian nihilism -- Matthew Arnold, philosophical pessimism, and the rise of Iranian epic nationalism -- James Morier, Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and the rise of a proxy public sphere -- Picturing Persia in visual and performing arts -- E.G. Browne, canonization of Persian literature, and the making of a transnational literary public sphere -- Persica spiritualis : Nicholson, Schimmel, Corbin, and their consequences. Subjects; East and West. Orientalism Europe History. Social movements Europe History. Transnationalism History.
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