Books by seyed javad miri meynagh
Erich Fromm’s body of work, written more than 50 years ago, was prophetic of the contemporary... more Erich Fromm’s body of work, written more than 50 years ago, was prophetic of the contemporary moment: Increasingly, global society is threatened by the many-headed monster of corporate greed, neo-liberalism, nihilism, extreme fundamentalist beliefs, and their resulting effects on the natural world and the lived lives of people. Fromm clearly warned us of the peril of the misuse of technology and the destructive nature of man’s perverse desire to possess, control and/or destroy. Through his theories of having vs. being, the importance of hope as active resistance, and his notion of freedom as the capacity to love self, and others, Fromm encouraged his readers to cultivate biophilic ways of being in the world that will counter and heal the impending necrophilic plunder of man’s hubris. This multi-authored volume sheds new light on Fromm’s forgotten role in the formation of contemporary thought through an engaging variety of reflexive and historical narratives from fields of sociology, clinical psychology, political science, critical theory of religion and education. Key concepts from his body of work are interpreted and expressed in ways that offer hopeful and humane alternatives to the present global conditions of despair, greed and depersonalization.
Papers by seyed javad miri meynagh
Journal Of Organizational Behavior Research, 2021
METAFIZIKA International Journal of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies, 2020
Current educational reform rhetoric around the globe repeatedly invokes the language of 21st cent... more Current educational reform rhetoric around the globe repeatedly invokes the language of 21st century learning and innovative thinking while contrarily re-enforcing, through government policy, high stakes testing and international competition, standardization of education that is exceedingly reminiscent of 19th century Taylorism and scientific management. Yet, as the steam engines of educational "progress" continue down an increasingly narrow, linear, and unified track, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the students in our classrooms are inheriting real world problems of economic instability, ecological damage, social inequality, and human suffering. If young people are to address these social problems, they will need to activate complex, interconnected, empathetic and multiple ways of thinking about the ways in which peoples of the world are interconnected as a global community in the living ecosystem of the world. Seeing the world as simultaneously local, global, political, economic, ecological, cultural and interconnected is far removed from the Enlightenment's objectivist and mechanistic legacy that presently saturates the status quo of contemporary schooling. If we are to derail this positivist educational train and teach our students to see and be in the world differently, the educational community needs a serious dose of imagination. The goal of this book series is to assist students, practitioners, leaders, and researchers in looking beyond what they take for granted, questioning the normal, and amplifying our multiplicities of knowing, seeing, being and feeling to, ultimately, envision and create possibilities for positive social and educational change. The books featured in this series will explore ways of seeing, knowing, being, and learning that are frequently excluded in this global climate of standardized practices in the field of education. In particular, they will illuminate the ways in which imagination permeates every aspect of life and helps develop personal and political awareness. Featured works will be written in forms that range from academic to artistic, including original research in traditional scholarly format that addresses unconventional topics (e.g., play, gaming, ecopedagogy, aesthetics), as well as works that approach traditional and unconventional topics in unconventional formats (e.g., graphic novels, fiction, narrative forms, and multi-genre texts). Inspired by the work of Maxine Greene, this series will showcase works that "break through the limits of the conventional" and provoke readers to continue arousing themselves and their students to "begin again" (Greene, Releasing the Imagination, 1995, p. 109).
METAFIZIKA International Journal of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies, 2020
İnsan & Toplum, 2020
Ali Shariati has written extensively on various aspects of social theory and the history of relig... more Ali Shariati has written extensively on various aspects of social theory and the history of religions, but very few have studied his views on Ibn Khaldun. In other words, my main concern in this article is focused squarely on Shariati's reading of Ibn Khaldun's discourses. My argument is not to be preoccupied by Eastern or WesternKhaldunian studies or even how sociologists and social anthropologists such as Ahmad Ashraf construe him. On the contrary, I attempt to go through the 36 volumes of Ali Shariati's legacy in this article, delving into his reections on Ibn Khaldun. Does he say anything substantial at all on Ibn Khaldun? What does Shariati think of Ibn Khaldun? How does Shariati read Ibn Khaldun? Has anybody else worked upon the typeof Ibn Khaldun thatShariati has construed? As muchas I have studied the literature in the Persian, English, Swedish, Russian, Arabic, and Turkish languages, no references are found regarding Shariatia's interpretations of Ibn Khaldu...
Journal Of Organizational Behavior Research, 2021
What do we mean when we talk about Islamophobia and why is it important to debate it in different... more What do we mean when we talk about Islamophobia and why is it important to debate it in different contexts? The following article is a critical debate over the increasing consensus about constructing a universal account of Islamophobia. It will, then, discuss the intense prejudice and systematic discrimination against Muslims in Russia. The authors consider the Russian example and attempt to explain if Islamophobia extensively exists in Russian society and why there is an
absence of the language of Islamophobia in the country’s academic and media discourse. Using existing research about different expressions of Islamophobia and its political, cultural, racial, and economic attachments, supplemented by a historical debate of the history of the Russian encounter with Islam as the holy other, the authors argue that the existing language of Islamophobia is unable to explain the prejudice against Muslims in Russia and how we can further address this issue by rejecting a universal Western-orientation of the nature of Islamophobia as a phenomenon.
“Metafizika” Journal (ISSN 2616-6879) Serial. № 10, 2020
Between 2001 and 2017, it is nearly two decades that Pourhassan writes about philosophy and the r... more Between 2001 and 2017, it is nearly two decades that Pourhassan writes about philosophy and the relationship between philosophical thinking and religion in the Iranian academic field. His most important works are "Comparative Hermeneutics", "Shiite Wisdom", "Farabi and the Path of Felicity", "Language of Religion and Belief in God", "Avicenna and Oriental Wisdom" and finally his recent book "A New Reading of Farabi's Philosophy: A fundamental epistemic break with the Greek tradition", published in 2017. Looking at Pourhassan's course of thought, one can come to four key points about his discourse; the first is that Pourhassan believes that "we" are an extension of the West and the second is that he believes that while under the West we are incapable of understanding religion properly because it is im-possible under the Western and Orientalist notions of consciousness have a proper understanding of "re...
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Books by seyed javad miri meynagh
Papers by seyed javad miri meynagh
absence of the language of Islamophobia in the country’s academic and media discourse. Using existing research about different expressions of Islamophobia and its political, cultural, racial, and economic attachments, supplemented by a historical debate of the history of the Russian encounter with Islam as the holy other, the authors argue that the existing language of Islamophobia is unable to explain the prejudice against Muslims in Russia and how we can further address this issue by rejecting a universal Western-orientation of the nature of Islamophobia as a phenomenon.
absence of the language of Islamophobia in the country’s academic and media discourse. Using existing research about different expressions of Islamophobia and its political, cultural, racial, and economic attachments, supplemented by a historical debate of the history of the Russian encounter with Islam as the holy other, the authors argue that the existing language of Islamophobia is unable to explain the prejudice against Muslims in Russia and how we can further address this issue by rejecting a universal Western-orientation of the nature of Islamophobia as a phenomenon.