Islamic Revolution

is an event that served as a challenge to Western notions of teleological history in that it did not result from internal contradictions, nor was it striving for some clearly defined future... the actors the men and women in the street had no clear agenda. Their acts of revolt were ambiguous and aimed only at transforming the present. Instead of an agenda, the iranian people were motivated by a political spirituality.

For Foucault, the Islamic Revolution challenged Western notions of teleological history. It did not result from internal contradictions, nor was it striving for some clearly defined future... the actors the men and women in the street had no clear agenda. Their acts of revolt were ambiguous and aimed only at transforming the present. Instead of an agenda, the Iranian people were motivated by a political spirituality.

is an event that served not as a rejection of modernity but as an embracing of it... however, it embraced modernity in the spirit of Baudelaire, not Kant.

In the Islamic Revolution, Foucault also found the possibility of a permanent critique of the present and self-creation. In this critique, the Revolution is not a rejection of modernity but an embracing of it. However, it embraces modernity in the spirit of Baudelaire, not Kant. As Ghamari-Tabrizi shows, Foucault does not, pace Afary and Anderson, jettison the Revolution for Kantian Enlightenment... he projects the Revolution onto Kant's Was is Aufklarung'

is an event notable in that it transcended Western developmental explanations by refusing to backtrack by accepting Enlightenment values in the face of the terror the revolution unleashed.

Where they claim Foucault sympathies with the Islamic Revolution arise from a shared naivete regarding pre-modern cultures, Ghamari-Tabrizi argues that for Foucault, the attraction of the revolution was in its transcending of Western developmental explanations and that rather than ultimately backtracking and accepting Enlightenment values in the face of the terror the revolution unleashed, as Afary and Anderson contend, Foucault's later work remained consistent with his writings on Iran.

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islamic revolution