Ethos

A Critique of Eurocentric Modernity

Ahmad Kasravi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2025
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4779-8 (ISBN)

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Ethos is a radical critique of Eurocentrism. In it, Ahmad Kasravi unleashes a scathing attack on Europe’s self-perceived superiority as well as on Eastern promoters of the idea. Kasravi proceeds to outline the ills of post-Enlightenment European civilization: imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, Orientalism. Embedded in Europe’s notions of “progress,” these phenomena have in reality brought about social Darwinism, racism, war-mongering, materialism, mindless consumerism, inequality and immorality in the world. Disputing the rationality or civility of these Western tokens, Kasravi warns Euro-enthusiasts in his country of the consequences of wholesale Westernization and instead advocates for a vernacular modernity premised on the noble virtues of Iranian culture and of rationalist Islam. In the process, Kasravi created the theoretical framework and the lexicon which many of his other works build upon, and which generations of other Iranian intellectuals of various persuasions would draw on. Placed in the context of similar polemical works from the global South, Ethos’s import transcends the Iranian setting. It presents an embryonic articulation of post-colonial discourse which would, decades later, come to maturity and international recognition in the works of Edward Said and others.

Ahmad Kasravi is among the most influential Iranian intellectuals in the 20th century. He received traditional Islamic education as a seminarian, but was later drawn to modern science and scholarship. A philologist, anthropologist, linguist, jurist, journalist and historian, Kasravi was assassinated in 1946, but his works continued to influence both secular and Islamist modernists in Iran and beyond. Hamid Rezaei Yazdi is Professor at Humber College, Canada. He is the editor of Persian Literature and Modernity: Production and Reception (2019).

Translator’s Note / Introduction by Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Part I.
Thesis one: The earth and earthlings
Thesis two: Is the world progressing?
Thesis three: The consequence of Europe’s inventions
Thesis four: The instruments have changed, the war remains
Thesis five: Europe disrupts the world’s tranquillity
Thesis six: Can law replace religion?
Thesis seven: Europe’s woes
Thesis eight: What will be the consequence of machinism?
Thesis nine: What have the prophets said and what does Europe say?
Thesis ten: The Eurocentric movement in Iran
Thesis eleven: The East loses its treasures
Thesis twelve: What is civilization?
Thesis thirteen: European sciences
Thesis fourteen: Women should not be headstrong
Thesis fifteen: A leader does not lie to his own people
Thesis sixteen: We must not look to Europe
Thesis seventeen: What is religion?
Thesis eighteen: Religion is humanism
Part II
Thesis one: In the Creator’s virtuous name
Thesis two: How has Europe become entangled?
Thesis three: Ancient grudges
Thesis four: Irreligiosity and unethical education
Thesis five: The harms of machinism
Thesis six: Madness
Thesis seven: Bolshevism
Thesis eight: Three principles of life
Thesis nine: Deviant leaders
Thesis ten: The rites of life
Thesis eleven: Brotherly behaviour
Thesis twelve: Agriculture
Thesis thirteen: European laws [1]
Thesis fourteen: European laws [2]
Thesis fifteen: European laws [3]
Thesis sixteen: Righteous and evil dispositions
Thesis seventeen: The value of European inventions
Thesis eighteen: The Orient and the Occident
Thesis nineteen: The great Geneva Convention
Thesis twenty: What is our claim?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.2.2025
Übersetzer	Dr. Hamid Rezai Yazdi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7556-4779-3 / 0755647793
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-4779-8 / 9780755647798
Zustand	Neuware