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Table of Contents Volume 3, Number 2

English Verso Special issue on Foucault in Iran Foucault and Iran Reconsidered: Revolt, Religion, and Neoliberalism Michiel Leezenberg French Secular Thought: Foucault and Political Spirituality Brian Turner Risking Prophecy in the Modern State: Foucault, Iran, and the Conduct of the Corey McCall Foucault and Epicureanism of the Iranian Revolution Yadullah Shahibzadeh What is at the […]

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Foucault and Iran Reconsidered: Revolt, Religion, and Neoliberalism

  Michiel Leezenberg <m.m.leezenberg@uva.nl> teaches in the Philosophy and Religious Studies departments of the University of Amsterdam. He has published numerous articles on the social and intellectual history of the Islamic world, and on the history and philosophy of the humanities.   Introduction Over three decades after his death and almost four decades after his […]

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French Secular Thought: Foucault and Political Spirituality

   Bryan S. Turner <The Australian Catholic University (Melbourne)>is the Professor of the Sociology of Religion at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne), Honorary Professor of Sociology Potsdam University Germany and Emeritus Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USA, and a Fellow of the Edward Cadbury Centre University of Birmingham. […]

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Risking Prophecy in the Modern State: Foucault, Iran, and the Conduct of the Intellectual

Dr. Corey McCall <cmccall@elmira.edu> is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elmira College in upstate New York.  His teaching and research interests include 19th and 20th century European philosophy, American philosophy, postcolonial literature and thought, and the history of philosophy more broadly.  Recent and forthcoming publications include the co-edited volumes Melville Among the Philosophers (2017) and Benjamin, Adorno, and […]

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Foucault and Epicureanism of the Iranian Revolution

Yadullah Shahibzadeh <yad79@hotmail.com> took his Bachelor, Master and PhD from the University of Oslo. He taught and researched at the same university for many years. Shahibzadeh is author of The Iranian Political Language: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present (2015), and Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran: An Intellectual History (2016). He expects to publish his new book, Marxism and […]

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Iranian Conditions: Metaphors of Illness in Iranian Fiction and Film

Babak Elahi <bxegsl@rit.edu> teaches in the School of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in American literature from the University of Rochester. His work has been published in Iranian Studies; Alif; Middle Eastern Literatures; Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; MELUS, International Journal of Fashion Studies, and […]

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In Memoriam: Heshmat Moayyad, 1927-2018

Franklin D. Lewis <flewis@uchicago.edu> is an Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.   My friend, mentor and Doktorvater, Heshmat Moayyad passed away on Monday 25 June 2018 in Northbrook, Illinois, at the age of 90.  Heshmatollah Moayyad Sanandaji began […]