Abstract
Foucault's “Political Spirituality”: Saving Iran From Western Saviors
Highlights
This classic Western gaze troubled Foucault. He visualized the Orient as the laudable Other. Its ruling sensibility he saw as salutary for modernity
Its horror was sublime; it was the posture of killers
He condemned the suppression of racial Others
Summary
In his 1978 dialogue (Tehran) with Iranian philosopher Baqir Parham, Foucault cast Western philosophy’s role in the eighteenth century as radically negative. The Western literati ridiculed Foucault for this contrarian view of the Revolution and Iranian Islam. In 2005, two US academics Janet Afary and Kevin Anderson covered this affair in their Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism. Afary is Iranian by birth and married to the US sociologist Anderson; they are both hostile to Shi’ism, Islam, and Iran.
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