Hamid Dabashi著 『Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene』(Harvard University Press)。
『Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene』商品基本情報発売日: 2015年著者: Hamid Dabashi出版社: HARVARD UNIV PRタイトル: Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene:PERSOPHILIA発行年: 2015年サイズ: Hardcoverページ数: 250言語: EnglishISBNコード: 9780674504691About This BookFrom the Biblical period and Classical Antiquity to the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, aspects of Persian culture have been integral to European history. A diverse constellation of European artists, poets, and thinkers have looked to Persia for inspiration, finding there a rich cultural counterpoint and frame of reference. Interest in all things Persian was no passing fancy but an enduring fascination that has shaped not just Western views but the self-image of Iranians up to the present day. Persophilia maps the changing geography of connections between Persia and the West over the centuries and shows that traffic in ideas about Persia and Persians did not travel on a one-way street.How did Iranians respond when they saw themselves reflected in Western mirrors? Expanding on Jürgen Habermas’s theory of the public sphere, and overcoming the limits of Edward Said, Hamid Dabashi answers this critical question by tracing the formation of a civic discursive space in Iran, seeing it as a prime example of a modern nation-state emerging from an ancient civilization in the context of European colonialism. The modern Iranian public sphere, Dabashi argues, cannot be understood apart from this dynamic interaction.Persophilia takes into its purview works as varied as Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Handel’s Xerxes and Puccini’s Turandot, and Gauguin and Matisse’s fascination with Persian art. The result is a provocative reading of world history that dismantles normative historiography and alters our understanding of postcolonial nations.About the AuthorsHamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Distant Memories of the Biblical and Classical Heritage2. Montesquieu, the Bourgeois Public Sphere, and the Rise of Persian Liberal Nationalism3. Sir William Jones, Orientalist Philology, and Persian Linguistic Nationalism4. Goethe, Hegel, Hafez, and Company5. From Romanticism to Pan-Islamism to Transcendentalism6. Nietzsche, Hafez, Mozart, Zarathustra, and the Making of a Persian Dionysus7. Edward FitzGerald and the Rediscovery of Omar Khayyám for Persian Nihilism8. Matthew Arnold, Philosophical Pessimism, and the Rise of Iranian Epic Nationalism9. James Morier, Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and the Rise of a Proxy Public Sphere10. Picturing Persia in the Visual and Performing Arts11. E. G. Browne, Persian Literature, and the Making of a Transnational Literary Public Sphere12. Persica Spiritualis: Nicholson, Schimmel, Corbin, and Their ConsequencesConclusionNotesAcknowledgmentsIndexPersophilia — Hamid Dabashi _ Harvard University Press去年出たダバシ先生の本にようやく復帰。Hamid Dabashi著 『Persophilia_ Persian Culture on the Global Scene』(Harvard University Press)。 _ 知音夢裡尋 - 楽天ブログ