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This research aims to compare the concept of Westernization in the intellectual literature of Iranian intellectuals specifically focusing on Dariush Shaygan and Jalal Al-Ahmad to understand the root of the differences in their views. By analyzing their attitudes toward this concept, the research will explain the two distinct political and philosophical approaches that characterize Iranian intellectuals' responses to the dominance of Western culture and civilization in Iranian society, and evaluate and compare their strategies for addressing this situation. An analytical-comparative method has been employed in this research. By applying this approach, the study seeks to analyze the concept of Westernization in the intellectual literature of these two intellectuals and examine the relationship between their intellectual origins and intellectual frameworks, highlighting their fundamental distinctions. The main finding of this research indicates that the primary difference in the concept of Westernization between Al-Ahmad and Shaygan is rooted in their divergent philosophical and political approaches when examining the relationship between modern Western civilization and non-European civilizations. The general result reveals that Al-Ahmad's political and economic approach has led to a post-colonial interpretation of Westernization, while Shaygan's philosophical view, grounded in an ontological critique of modernity, has guided his perspectives toward post-modern attitudes.

The aim of the current research is to investigate and analyze the Pahlavani discourse in Iranian political culture as one of the important issues that can be seen regarding the trend of heroism and political saviorism in the contemporary history of Iran, and an attempt has been made to analyze this phenomenon with the discourse method and case study. and while analyzing the main components of Pahlavani discourse in Iran's political culture, evaluate and criticize its consequences in the political attitudes and behaviors of Iranians. Paying attention to the influence of Pahlavi discourse on the expansion of the spirit of heroism and presenting a mythical image of political leaders that has led to avoiding a realistic and critical look at their performance by focusing on two relatively popular political figures in the contemporary history of Iran whose fate shows the lack of Their success is in the full realization of their goals; It is one of the most important findings of this research. The general result of this research shows that the Pahlavani discourse and its control over Iranian political culture, while presenting an idealistic view of activists and political leaders, has turned them into national heroes and has made it impossible to criticize and analyze their performance impartially in order to better understand political and historical developments. .

The purpose of the current research is to investigate Ali Shariati's subjective approach to the concept of man and his social responsibility and its impact on the revolutionary reading of religion as a radical political ideology. By using this approach, Shariati formulated a revolutionary subject in Shiite religious literature. The main question of the current research is, what place did the revolutionary subject have in Shariati's thought? And to what extent Shariati's revolutionary analysis of Shiism was effective in the political mobilization of the masses of people in the Islamic Revolution? This research, using the analytical-historical method, wants to analyze the main features of Shariati's intellectual project and evaluate its role in the victory of the Islamic Revolution.Paying attention to the political and social consequences of Shariati's subjective approach, including paying attention to the revolutionary subject and its redefinition in Shia religious literature and its role in drawing the revolutionary image of religion as a factor of social and historical transformation and its contribution to the formation and development of the Islamic Revolution are among the most important findings of this It is research.  

The aim of the present study is to investigate the mental approach of Ali Shariati as one of the important figures of contemporary Iranian intellectuals to the concept of man and his social responsibility and its effect on the revolutionary reading of religion as a radical political ideology. The main question of this research is that what role did Shariati's mental, radical and revolutionary approach in reading religious concepts play in the ideological formulation of his thought and what political impact did he have on the victory of the Islamic Revolution? The main hypothesis is based on the fact that Shariati, by redefining religious concepts on the axis of revolutionary subject and social praxis in the framework of a radical political ideology, was able to present a revolutionary narrative of political Islam, which plays an important role in the political mobilization of different sections of society, especially the educated youth in the revolution. had islamicWhat is important for us in this research is not a judgment about the merits and demerits of Shariati's intellectual project or a judgment about the relationship between religion and ideology. Rather, we seek to understand the nature of Shariati's thought as a religious revolutionary intellectual and its relationship with the modern subject, so that we can better understand the logic of his thinking and his method of understanding and interpreting history and religious texts.

 The method of collecting the necessary data to conduct such a research was documents, in the framework of which a collection of Shariati's views related to the revolutionary subject and his radical interpretation of religion was collected. These views have been presented directly or indirectly in the form of his lectures, books and works. Criticism and analysis of the collected data has been done using the analytical-historical method, which wants to analyze the main features of Shariati's intellectual project and evaluate its role in the victory of the Islamic Revolution.

One of the most important findings of this research is that Shariati, inspired by modern humanism, had a volitional and subjective view of man, and based on the role of the subject and the role of the subject, he assigned a special place in social developments. And it pays special attention to the historical agency of man as the agent of historical and social changes and to the dialectic of the individual and the society. Shariati's intellectual project is to present an image of a revolutionary subject who can transform and change the world around him. This is the characteristic that has made Shariati a modern and radical humanist thinker.Shariati tried to strengthen and revive the revolutionary potential of religion by discussing "Islamic Protestantism". In his opinion, religion should move towards worldly issues from an eschatological point of view. Shariati gave the main role to responsible and revolutionary intellectuals in the path of reviving the revolutionary and radical image of religion. He believed that these intellectuals should create Islamic Protestantism instead of fighting religion as a reactionary element in order to give a new thought and movement to the society. The most important feature of Shariati's intellectual work was the use of new ideological and sociological formats in redefining religious concepts.Shariati's intellectual influence among the educated youth and pushing them towards religion as an ideology in the Islamic revolution should be considered as a kind of intellectual creativity in redefining the revolutionary issue around the element of religion as one of the foundations of identity and belief of the Iranian society of that era. Many analysts who have investigated and studied the Islamic Revolution of Iran believe that Shariati's thoughts played an important role in the Islamic Revolution of Iran. Redefining religious concepts around subjectivity and revolution in Shariati's thought is considered the most important strength of his intellectual project, which shows the modern and revolutionary political capability of Shariati's thought. With this pattern in reading religious texts, history and teachings, he succeeded in presenting a radical and revolutionary image of religion and considered religion as the main factor of seeking justice and political protest.Shariati's subjective approach to religion is a completely modern phenomenon that aims to define a revolutionary political and social role for Shi'ism in Iran at that time. Considering the level of widespread influence of religion among different strata of the traditional and transitioning Iranian society, Shariati knew that the dominance of a radical and revolutionary narrative of religion can be the foundation of a comprehensive and revolutionary political action.

The general result of this research shows that Shariati, as a revolutionary religious intellectual, by presenting his coherent, methodical, history-oriented and creative narrative of the texts and history of Islam, was able to draw a different picture from the traditional narrative of the clergy about religion, which has new political capacities for it as It provides the impetus for political action in an ideological formulation. Shariati's revolutionary approach to religion became the basis for presenting a radical and protesting image of religion, which played an important role in stimulating religious youth towards political action. Shariati's ideological reading of religion was carried out with the aim of pushing the Iranian society towards a political revolution against the autocratic and dependent Pahlavi regime. By applying a subjective, ideological and revolutionary approach to religion, Shariati has turned it into the main element of the political mobilization of various social forces in the Islamic Revolution.

Rejecting myths does not mean destroying all dramatic relations between the sexes, it does not mean denying the meanings that are truly revealed to men during female reality, it does not mean eliminating poetry, love, adventure, happiness and dreams, it just means that It is requested that the basis of behaviors, feelings and desires be based on the truth. Maybe new myths will emerge. (1) Therefore, in this research, we are trying to answer the question, what is the position of women as female subjects in the cinema of Masoud Kimiaei? Let's examine the position of anti-feminist myths in history by emphasizing Simone de Beauvoir's approach in Masoud Kimiaei's cinema to the subject of women as a symbol of nothingness and death and desire taken from historical myths with a feminist approach; Therefore, in Kimiai's works from Caesar to the contemporary period, we will briefly examine the position of women as evil in Masoud Kimiai's cinema. For example, in the film Crime (2009), the filmmaker shows that dependence on women, even if it does not lead to their betrayal or infidelity, can ruin men's lives or lead them to seditious and troublesome behaviors.

The aim of the current research is to investigate the subjective approach of Ali Shariati as one of the important figures of contemporary intellectuals of Iran to man and his social responsibility, its impact on the revolutionary and radical interpretation of religion as a political ideology. By using this approach, Shariati formulated a revolutionary subject in Shiite religious literature. And with its help, he was able to provide the ground for the political mobilization of the masses during the Islamic revolution. And to what extent Shariati's revolutionary analysis of the Shia religion was effective in the political mobilization of the masses of people in the Islamic Revolution?

Using the historical analytical method, this research wants to analyze the main characteristics of Shariati's approach to religion and evaluate its role in the victory of the Islamic Revolution.

Paying attention to the political and social consequences of his analysis, including his attention to the revolutionary subject and its redefinition in Shiite religious literature and its role in depicting the revolutionary image of religion as a factor of social and historical transformation and its contribution to the formation and development of the Islamic Revolution are among the most important findings of this research.

The general result of this research shows that Shariati's intellectual project of presenting a subjective, ideological and revolutionary image of religion was ultimately the basis for turning religion into the main element of political mobilization in the Islamic Revolution.

This article tries to examine modern humanism and the position of the concept of the subject from Nietzsche's critical point of view, considering the importance and position of instinct compared to consciousness. Man as the subject and subject of knowledge has a privileged position in modern metaphysics, and basically, modernity has an inseparable link with the subject and consciousness. Nietzsche's criticism of the subjective concept of modern man and the revival of the elemental instinct in the drawing of the human face is considered a fundamental criticism of modernity. In this research, firstly, the relationship between instinct and consciousness is examined in the theoretical foundations, focusing on the thought of Rousseau and Schopenhauer, and then the relationship between instinct and moral values, as well as the desire for truth in Nietzsche's view, is investigated. Nietzsche believes that the reduction of man to consciousness (the knowing subject) requires ignoring other dimensions of human existence, such as physical, instinctive, emotional, and historical dimensions, and as a result, he considers the image of modern man as a subject to be an incomplete form of man, which, despite the cognitive and moral centrality in modern metaphysics, has ignored important aspects of human being and natural dimensions that can lead to his prosperity. This article finally deals with the place of body and instinct as natural dimensions of human existence and their priority over mind and subjective consciousness in Nietzsche's anthropology.

Dariush Shaygan is an outstanding intellectual figure who is familiar with the traditional heritage and culture of Iranian society, and has a relatively complete knowledge of modernity and its philosophical foundations. However, what have made his thoughts remarkable are the gradual changes that have taken place in his attitude towards modernity during his intellectual life. In the first period of his intellectual life, Shaygan was strongly anti-modernist and considered it a European-centered phenomenon which was in the stage of nihilism and absurdity; and he was concerned with its dominance over Eastern culture and spirituality. Years later, he changed his views in an obvious way and  recognized modernity as a superior meta-narrative, and believed that its dominance over other cultures and civilizations were inevitable. The main objective of  this research is to find the underlying reasons for the transformation of Shaygan's attitude towards modernity, and his confrontation with political and social developments of his time. The perceptible transformation of his views on modernity can be seen in his books published during two time periods: a) Those written before the Islamic Revolution of Iran (e.g., “Mental Idols and Eternal Memory;” and “Asia vs. the West”; and b)  books published one and two decades after the Revolution (namely, “New Enchantment,” and “Forty-piece Identity and Mobile Thinking,” In the first post-revolution decade,  Shaygan was strongly influenced by the developments caused by this particularly momentous event in Iranian contemporary  history; and consequently, he tried to analyze the ontological foundations of the occurrence of this astonishing revolution. During the last years of his life, the focus of his work  was on the literary and cultural heritage of the East and the West, as seen in his two books entitled “In Search of Lost Spaces,” and “Five Climates of Presence: A Discussion on Iranian Poetry.” In this research, we evaluate these books by using the method of qualitative conceptual analysis.It is argued that Shaygan’s attention to Kant's approach to the critique of pure reason led him to distance himself from his previous Heideggerian interpretation of modernity. By criticizing metaphysics, Kant created a new possibility for a pluralistic design of modern thought. A possibility that could be an opportunity to break out of the impasse of modern nihilism and move to a kind of radical cognitive freedom in the context of modernity. Shaygan's attention to postmodern ideas —instead of the traditional Eastern heritage — as a new philosophical basis for overcoming Heidegger's previous Nietzschean approach, has been made possible by this re-reading of Kant's critical rationality, and perhaps by his attention to Watimo's views. The authors try to answer the following main research question: What are the reasons for the change in Shaygan's attitude towards the relationship between modernity and cultural heritage of Eastern societies, from the perspective of Heidegger-Nietzsche's view of Kant? In the hypothesis, it is postulated that  the prevalence of anti-Western political radicalism in Iran showed Shaygan that Nietzsche-Heidegger's reading of Eastern heritage and the denial of modernity had no effect other than its ideological reproduction. Shaygan reconsidered the foundations of modernity in the context of a Kantian and post-Kantian pluralism. Realizing the danger of the negation of modernity, Shaygan concluded that the interaction between the Eastern traditions and modernity is inevitable. This interaction was not seen possible with the earlier approach based on the negation and reduction of modernity to nihilism. Reconsideration of Shaygan’s  approach was inspired by Watimo's Kantian reading of Nietzsche; and thus, he sought to adopt a Kantian and post-Kantian approach to Eastern modernity and tradition. While modernity is universally interpreted, Eastern traditions are not considered as alternatives to modernity, but as spiritual complement to give meaning to human life in the modern age.

This research aims to analyze the concept of westernization in Ahmad Fardid's philosophy of history and its relationship with the Islamic Revolution. In it, while analyzing Fardid's attitude towards the state of human civilization in the new era, the position of the Islamic Revolution in it as a great transformation to get rid of the control of Westernization is attempted. And to deal with the non-existence caused by it should be considered. The critical interpretation method has been considered in this research, and with its application, it has been tried to evaluate and criticize the concept of westernization in Farid's intellectual literature and its relationship with the Islamic Revolution. Fardid's analysis of this important political development is mostly based on the anti-Western characteristics of the Islamic Revolution, and he is indifferent to the political nature of the revolution as a modern political phenomenon.The main finding of this research is to understand the reductionist nature of Fardid's thought about the relationship between the Islamic Revolution and modernity and to examine the consequences of his analysis, which requires ignoring the political, economic and social aspects of the revolution and focusing only on its ontological dimension. The overall result shows that the ontological approach and individual history philosophy, which is based on Heidegger's critique of metaphysics and attention to Ibn Arabi's mystical nomenclature and apocalyptic ideas, has fundamental shortcomings in explaining the phenomenon of the Islamic Revolution.

Al-Ahmad's radical critiques of the concept of Westernization due to the widespread popularity of various sections of Iranian society at the time of its introduction played an important role in the intellectual and political orientations of Iranian society. Research Findings1- Westernization is a reaction related to modernizationHis views entitled "Westernization" in its technological, economic and social dimensions should be considered as a reaction to the pattern of modernization that was being formed rapidly in the second Pahlavi era and regardless of its consequences. The strong dependence of this process on global capitalism and the prominent role of multinational companies in investing in Iran's domestic industries, along with the growing import of foreign products from oil revenues and the prevalence of consumerism in the urban lifestyle, was a phenomenon that many intellectuals of that period in various forms. It was criticized and Al-Ahmad was one of the pioneers in criticizing this modernization in this direction.2. Critical Westernization of Superficial ModernismThe dependent and accelerated modernization of the Pahlavi government was rooted in a superficial and ignorant modernism that dominated the thought and culture of the elites and constitutionalist and modernist intellectuals of Reza Shah's era and in the Ahmad's era by the formal education system, press and cultural magazines and even some new intellectuals and educated people. dominated. The modernism that prevailed during this period undoubtedly lacked philosophical depth or precise knowledge of the nature of modern culture and civilization, and for this reason it promoted imitation of the modern lifestyle as the main manifestation of modernity. He was involved in cultural and identity debates.3. Weakness of the positive aspects of the concept of westernizationThe lack of philosophical aspect and the emphasis on economic and political aspects of Al-Ahmad's critiques of the accelerated modernization and superficial modernism of the Pahlavi era in the context of the critique of the phenomenon of "Westernization" indicate if his superficial acquaintance with modern European civilization. Except for the strengthening of anti-Western political currents in the form of political and cultural anti-Westernism.

The purpose of this study was to review and criticize the theory of Iranian modernity, Ali Mirsepasi, as one of the most important analyses that has been done on the Iranian in face of modernity which has tried to present multiple models of modernity as a new theory. The current study has used the analytical-critical method, while analyzing the main features of the theory of Iranian modernity, evaluating and criticizing its critical and positive aspects in the study of contemporary Iranian developments. Shortcomings of his analysis include paying great attention to the intellectual and cultural aspects of Iranian modernity while not paying attention to the structural and institutional aspects of it which effects the development of modernity. Moreover role of intellectuals in promoting political Islam and traditional forces and institutions in the Islamic Revolution have not been addressed. One of the most important findings of the current research is shedding light on positive aspects of his proposed model, which is based on the diversity of cultural and historical experiences of modernity and the attempt to draw a non-European-oriented image of it. The general result of this research indicates that the theory of Iranian modernity, while presenting a new approach and perspective to the study of contemporary Iranian history, postpones some of its crucial aspects emphasizing the need for new research.

The dominance of positivism over the philosophy of science in the first years of the twentieth century, due to its wave of criticism by some philosophers of science in the second half of this century, was in crisis and collapse. The views of scientific philosophers such as Popper, Cohen, and Lakatos provided the basis for the emergence of more radical critiques of the classical stream of philosophy of science. In the same vein, Feyerabend tried to replace the previous approaches with a kind of methodological anarchism in his book, Against Method The Anarchist Theory of Knowledge. According to her, there is no reasonable way to obtain and reject theories. In this book, she shows that trying to find rules for the logical reconstruction of the process of advancing science and proving and refuting theories is futile. In this research, while reviewing the mentioned book, an attempt has been made to evaluate some of the main views of the author in terms of form and content. The purpose of this work is to show the validity of the author's radical claims in the philosophy of science and to assess its strengths and weaknesses. The method used in the critique of this descriptive-analytical work shows that Firand's views, while in the field of philosophy of science as a new critical.