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Persophilia : Persian Culture on the Global Scene / Hamid Dabashi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries onlyDescription: 1 online resource (250 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674495777
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 955 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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
Summary: From antiquity to the Enlightenment, Persian culture has been integral to European history. Interest in all things Persian shaped not just Western views but the self-image of Iranians to the present day. Hamid Dabashi maps the changing geography of these connections, showing that traffic in ideas about Persia did not travel on a one-way street.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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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From antiquity to the Enlightenment, Persian culture has been integral to European history. Interest in all things Persian shaped not just Western views but the self-image of Iranians to the present day. Hamid Dabashi maps the changing geography of these connections, showing that traffic in ideas about Persia did not travel on a one-way street.

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In English.

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