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HIS OWN PRIVATE IRAN
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April 1, 2005
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HIS OWN PRIVATE IRAN David Farber on Foucault and Khomeini FOUCAULT AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION: GENDER AND THE SEDUCTIONS OF ISLAMISM BY JANET AFARY AND KEVIN B. ANDERSON CHICAGO: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS. 312 PAGES. $24.
For the young American intellectual hipster at the end of the 1970s-in the aftermath of Watergate and the fall of Saigon, in the midst of energy crises and stagflation-it was all about the French. Reading Barthes (in translation) over bad coffee at Puerto Rican bakeries kept cynicism at bay and gave hope that you could get paid to write semiotic analyses of televangelism or revival movie houses. At a time when leftist politics had lost direction, BernardHenri Levy, with ...
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