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| DOI | 10.4102/hts.v65i1.124 |
| HAMARTIA: FOUCAULT AND IRAN 1978-1979 (1: INTRODUCTION AND TEXTS) | |
| Beukes, Johann | |
| 通讯作者 | Beukes, J (corresponding author), POB 784849, ZA-2146 Sandton, South Africa. |
| 来源期刊 | HTS TEOLOGIESE STUDIES-THEOLOGICAL STUDIES
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| ISSN | 0259-9422 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 卷号 | 65期号:1 |
| 英文摘要 | In 1978 Michel Foucault went to Iran as a distinguished intellectual but novice political journalist, controversially reporting on the unfolding revolution, undeniably compromising and wounding his reputation in the European intellectual community. Given the revolution's bloody aftermath and its violent theocratic development, is Foucault's Iranian expedition simply to be understood as hamartia, a critical error in judgement, with disastrous consequences for his legacy? What exactly did Foucault hope to achieve in Iran in 1978 to 1979, explicitly supporting the cause of the revolting masses and effectively isolating himself from the European intellectual community and the Western liberal tradition? This series of two articles attempts to shed light on these questions by, in the first article, 1) introducing and contextualising the philosophical issues and 2) discussing the relevant texts; then, in the second article, 3) elaborating on three explicit contributions (Janet Afary and Kevin Anderson; Ian Almond; and Danny Postel) that recently have been made on this neglected issue in Foucault scholarship and 4) eventually indicating the possible philosophical significance of Foucault's peculiar mixture of naivete and perceptivity - indeed his peculiar hamartia - regarding the events in Iran. Presenting Foucault as a 'self-conscious Greek in Persia', the argument in both articles is that Foucault's 'present-historical' writings on the Iran revolution were closely related to his general theoretical writings on the discourses of power and his cynical perspectives on the inherent risks of modernity. Foucault's journalistic writings on Iran in 1978 to 1979 are therefore to be appreciated as essentially philosophical contributions to his extensive modern-critical oe uvre. Foucault's perspectives on power, revolt, Otherness, 'political spirituality' and his 'ethics of Self-discomfort' may prove to be as significant for an understanding of our world today as the author considers them to have been during the events of September 1978 to April 1979, with Tehran's self-esteem still radiating in the desert skies 30 years later. |
| 英文关键词 | hamartia Foucault Iran Iranian Revolution political spirituality |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 开放获取类型 | DOAJ Gold, Green Published |
| 收录类别 | AHCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000276644300018 |
| WOS关键词 | REVOLUTION |
| WOS类目 | Religion |
| WOS研究方向 | Religion |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/360739 |
| 作者单位 | [Beukes, Johann] Univ Pretoria, Fac Theol, ZA-0002 Pretoria, South Africa |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Beukes, Johann. HAMARTIA: FOUCAULT AND IRAN 1978-1979 (1: INTRODUCTION AND TEXTS)[J],2009,65(1). |
| APA | Beukes, Johann.(2009).HAMARTIA: FOUCAULT AND IRAN 1978-1979 (1: INTRODUCTION AND TEXTS).HTS TEOLOGIESE STUDIES-THEOLOGICAL STUDIES,65(1). |
| MLA | Beukes, Johann."HAMARTIA: FOUCAULT AND IRAN 1978-1979 (1: INTRODUCTION AND TEXTS)".HTS TEOLOGIESE STUDIES-THEOLOGICAL STUDIES 65.1(2009). |
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