[lbo-talk] Targeting Empire?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 13 16:38:17 PDT 2007


On Sep 13, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> Modernists, moreover, blame post-modernism for the way Michel Foucault
> saw the Iranian Revolution

Hamid Dabashi blames his guides.


> To conclude, post-modernism, especially of the Foucauldian sort, given
> its criticism of the ideology of Progress, is indeed likely to be a
> better philosophy than modernism for intellectual reconciliation of
> Islam and democracy.

Yes, that's the first thing I look for when I'm out shopping for philosophies - what will best reconcile Islam and democracy?

You'll like how Ervand Abrahamian says that Ahmadinejad has a lot in common with Cheney. What we call neocons in the U.S. are "principled conservatives" or "principalists" in Iran, says he.

Doug



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