Re: Targeting Empire?

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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