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Danny Postel

Counter-Revolution and Revolt in Iran: An Interview with Iranian Political Scientist Hossein Bashiriyeh

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Hossein Bashiriyeh is one of post-revolutionaryIran’s key political thinkers. Known as the father of political sociology in Iran, he has influenced, through his voluminous writings and his 24 years teaching political science at the University of Tehran (1983-2007), both the study and practice of politics in Iran. In his recent book Iran’s Intellectual Revolution, Mehran…

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Ideas whose time has come: A Conversation with Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo

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Ramin Jahanbegloo, one of Iran’s preeminent intellectual figures, is currently behind bars in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, where he has been held in solitary confinement since April 27th, 2006, with no formal charges brought against him. Among the hundreds of scholars across the globe who have signed an Open Letter to Iran’s president demanding Ramin’s…

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Camus, Sartre, and Us: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It An Interview with Ron Aronson

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Ron Aronson is widely regarded as the preeminent scholar of Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy in the English-speaking world. A professor of interdisciplinary studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, his books include Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosophy in the World (1980), The Dialectics of Disaster: A Preface to Hope (1983), Sartre’s Second Critique (1987), “Stay Out of Politics”:…

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