Persophilia

Persian Culture on the Global Scene

Hamid Dabashi

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$40.00 • £32.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674504691

Publication Date: 10/12/2015

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296 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Introduction
1. Distant Memories of the Biblical and Classical Heritage
2. Montesquieu, the Bourgeois Public Sphere, and the Rise of Persian Liberal Nationalism
3. Sir William Jones, Orientalist Philology, and Persian Linguistic Nationalism
4. Goethe, Hegel, Hafez, and Company
5. From Romanticism to Pan-Islamism to Transcendentalism
6. Nietzsche, Hafez, Mozart, Zarathustra, and the Making of a Persian Dionysus
7. Edward FitzGerald and the Rediscovery of Omar Khayyám for Persian Nihilism
8. Matthew Arnold, Philosophical Pessimism, and the Rise of Iranian Epic Nationalism
9. James Morier, Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and the Rise of a Proxy Public Sphere
10. Picturing Persia in the Visual and Performing Arts
11. E. G. Browne, Persian Literature, and the Making of a Transnational Literary Public Sphere
12. Persica Spiritualis: Nicholson, Schimmel, Corbin, and Their Consequences
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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