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