The Persian Prince Av Hamid Dabashi

<p>With its title borrowed from Machiavelli, <i>The Persian Prince</i> goes far beyond Machiavelli''s wildest imagination as to how to rule the world. Hamid Dabashi articulates a bold new idea of the Persian Prince¿a metaphor of political authority, a figurative ideal deeply rooted in the collective memories of multiple nations, and a literary construct that connected Muslim empires across time and space and continues to inform political debate today.</p><p>Drawing on works from Classical Antiquity and the vast Persianate worlds from India to the Mediterranean, as well as the Hebrew Bible and European medieval mirrors for princes, Dabashi engages a diverse body of political thought to reveal the construction of the Persian Prince as a potent archetype. He traces this archetype through its varied historic gestations and finds it resurfacing in postcolonial political thought as a rebel, a prophet, a poet, and a nomad. Bringing poetics and politics together, Dabashi shows how this archety

Pris: kr 369.00 fra Norli