Iran

Beauty and Tyranny

AvRamin Jahanbegloo

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien GINGKO–St Andrews Series

332 kr

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Beskrivning

From Cyrus the Great to the present day, Iran has been plagued by a recurrent syndrome of tyranny. For Ramin Jahanbegloo, the cure for this lies in a reengagement with the idea of a beautiful society. He presents beauty as an antidote to authoritarianism,and as a methodology of freedom: one first taught by the philosophers ofancient Greece, who bound beauty and goodness together in the principleof kalokagathia, and later revived by the GermanEnlightenment.A work of hopeand of faith in the people of Iran, this provocative and timelyintervention from the author of The Idea of Persia turns tothe past in order to imagine a way forward. Drawing on Hegel, Schiller, Arendt,Camus and more, Jahanbegloo lays out a vision of how Iran and Iranians mightcome to live in beautiful freedom.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-24
Mått:129 x 198 x undefined mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:GINGKO–St Andrews Series
Antal sidor:128
Förlag:GINGKO
ISBN:9781914983450

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Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian-Canadian political philosopher. He is currently the Executive Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and the Vice-Dean of the School of Law at Jindal Global University - Delhi - India. 2001. Widely celebrated and published internationally, in 2006 Dr Jahanbegloo was arrested at Tehran Airport and served four months in solitary confinement, charged with preparing a velvet revolution in Iran. He is the winner of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain (2009), and more recently the winner of the Josep Palau i Fabre International Essay Prize. He is also the founder of the movement ‘Non-violence Without Borders’.

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue: Is Iran Beautiful?The Greeks and the Persians: Why is Democracy Not a Persian Invention?The Syndrome of Tyranny in IranKalokagathia: The Beautiful and the GoodFriedrich Schiller and Nobility of SpiritEpilogue: Can Iran be Beautiful?