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foucault in iran umpGhamari-Tabrizi.indd 1 13/04/2016 6:00:36 PM Muslim International Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana Series Editors umpGhamari-Tabrizi.indd 2 13/04/2016 6:00:36 PM FOUCAULT IN IRAN Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment Behrooz Ghamari- Tabrizi Muslim International university of minnesota press minneapolis | london umpGhamari-Tabrizi.indd 3 13/04/2016 6:00:37 PM A different version of chapter 2 was published as “‘When Life Will No Longer Barter Itself ’: In Defense of Foucault on the Iranian Revolution,” in A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governmentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium, ed. Sam Binkley and Jorge Capetillo, 270– 90 (New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). Published with the permission of Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Copyright 2016 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401- 2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal- opportunity educator and employer. 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz, author. Title: Foucault in Iran : Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment / Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi. Description: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016] | Series: Muslim international | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015036894 | ISBN 978-0-8166-9948-3 (hc) | ISBN 978-0-8166-9949-0 (pb) Subjects: LCSH: Foucault, Michel, 1926–1984—Influence. | Iran—History—Revolution, 1979. | Iran—History—Revolution, 1979—Historiography. Classification: LCC B2430.F724 G52 2016 | DDC 955.05/42—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036894 umpGhamari-Tabrizi.indd 4 13/04/2016 6:00:37 PM TO GOLROKH umpGhamari-Tabrizi.indd 5 13/04/2016 6:00:37 PM This page intentionally left blank The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. — Karl Marx, Das Kapital Modernity can and will no longer borrow the criteria by which it takes its orientation from the models supplied by another epoch; it has to create its normativity out of itself. Who else but Europe could draw from its own traditions the insight, the energy, the courage of vision to shape our mentality? — Jürgen Habermas, Philosophical Discourse of Modernity If philosophy of the future exists, it must be born outside Europe or equally born in consequence of meetings and impacts between Europe and non- Europe. — Michel Foucault, On Zen Buddhism umpGhamari-Tabrizi.indd 7 13/04/2016 6:00:37 PM This page intentionally left blank contents preface xi introduction Foucault’s Indictment 1 1. Thinking the Unthinkable: The Revolutionary Movement in Iran 19 2. How Did Foucault Make Sense of the Iranian Revolution? 55 3. Misrepresenting the Revolution, Misreading Foucault 75 4. The Reign of Terror, Women’s Issues, and Feminist Politics 113 5. Was ist Auf klärung? The Iranian Revolution as a Moment of Enlightenment 159 conclusion Writing the History of the Present 187 acknowledgments 193 notes 197 index 231 umpGhamari-Tabrizi.indd 9 13/04/2016 6:00:37 PM
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