They have never been modern? : then what is the problem with those Persians?

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Abstract

The question of what it means to use the concepts of modernity and the modern sounds like an arcane theoretical concern. Were not those issues sorted out at the end of the twentieth century in the Great Debate between the moderns and postmoderns? Did not the postmoderns win that struggle, only to disintegrate a decade later in their infinite recursions into relativism? Are not we now living in a time when we are all a bit modern and a bit postmodern, variously immersed in digital and personal networks of swirling meaning?
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMaking Modernity: From the Mashriq to the Maghreb
EditorsStephen Pascoe, Virginie Rey, Paul James
Place of PublicationNorth Carlton, Vic.
PublisherArena Publications
Pages31-54
Number of pages24
ISBN (Print)9780980415841
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Keywords

  • civilization, modern
  • democracy
  • Iranians

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