چکیده:
After the 1920 Coup by which Reza Shah gradually seized
power and when parts of intellectuals’ manifesto were materialized,
one major question turned out to be of great importance in Iran and
the international community and that was whether the post-Coup
events, from the time Reza Shah took power until 1941, could be
called modernism or pscudo-modernism? To provide a clear picture
on the issue, the author examines the attitudes of highly distinguished
modernists, Islamists, and Iranists. He also meticulously analyzes
eleven various viewpoints, cach posing particular perspectives of
modernism in the Reza Shah cra. Eventually, the author points out
the basic shortcomings of modernism in the era, including: presence
of a wide gap between Western and Iranian intellectual despotisms,
dematerialization of democratic rationalism and the partial
materialization of technologic rationalism in Iran, and finally the
lack of efficient and modern political principles, which the latter
being the result of Iran’s social structure, lack of political awareness,
and absence of a distinct, politically-aware middle class.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Eventually, the author points out the basic shortcomings of modernism in the era, including: presence of a wide gap between Western and Iranian intellectual despotisms, dematerialization of democratic rationalism and the partial materialization of tcchnologic rationalism in Iran, and finally the lack of efficient and modern political principles, which the latter being the result oflran's social structure, lack of political awareness, and absence of a distinct, politically-aware middle class.
Spring 2009: SJ-88 I Introduction During the Reza Shah era, due to Russia 's disagreeablc interference in Iran and the painful experiences which Iranian remembered from Russia, as well as the anti-religious tendencies of the 1917 October Revolution, all consequent Western propensities, which brought up different social aspects of modernism and pseudo-modernism?
Reza Shah's modernity, the possibility of experiencing modernity, its insufficiency in Iran, and foreign invasion Focusing on the movement in the new modernity road, Mohammad Ashna criticized some Iranian intellectuals who, imitating western thoughts, believed: First, modernity's foundation could only be in the west; Iran and the East were completely unacquainted with it, since modernity had come from the triangle of Greek philosophy, Roman governors, and Christianity, which merely existed in Europe.
e. different aspects of modernism, varied the traditional society; industrializing dismissed or weakened the market, Retail purchasing, and professions; secularism took the place of spiritualism and weakened religious orders; nationalism dismissed local languages and cultures as well as ethnic minorities from the central identity; moreover, political centralizing resulted in surpassing the nomads and tribes."