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Article: Dialogue between Michel Foucault & Baqir Parham: on Marx, Islam, Christianity & revolution.(Interview)
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- Daedalus
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Note by Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson: In 1978, as the protests against the shah were becoming a mass movement, Michel Foucault made his first visit to Iran. During the next eight months, Foucault wrote a number of articles on the Iranian Revolution for "Corriere della Sera," "Le Monde," and other publications. These articles constitute the most sustained treatment anywhere in his writings of a non-Western society. Foucault's support for Iran's Islamist movement touched off a controversy that continues to this day.
This conversation, conducted in Iran in September of 1978 with the noted writer Baqir Parham, includes Foucault's first reflections on the Iranian ...