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Title
Taghi Erani, a Polymath in Interwar Berlin : Fundamental Science, Psychology, Orientalism, and Political Philosophy / by Younes Jalali.
ISBN
9783319978376
3319978373
9783319978369 (print)
3319978365
9783030074142 (print)
3030074145
9783319978383 (print)
3319978381
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XV, 301 pages) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-97837-6 doi
Call Number
DS41-66
Dewey Decimal Classification
956
Summary
A prominent civil servant, scientist, and intellectual, Taghi Erani was a pivotal figure in interwar Iran. Witness to two of the major political upheavals in the twentieth century-the rise of Pahlavi and the collapse of the Weimar Republic-he turned from fundamental science to leftwing activism and pacifism, leading to his arrest and death in prison. Younes Jalali traces his journey from Tehran to Berlin, where in the 1920s he crossed paths with the greatest German scientists and scholars of his day, including Max Planck, Albert Einstein, and Friedrich Rosen, and published seminal works on psychology and political philosophy. In the 1930s, as Reza Shah pursued rapprochement with the Third Reich, Taghi Erani was caught up in a crackdown on left-wing and pro-labor activists. His life and death offer a unique lens through which to view modern Iranian intellectual and political history.
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1. The Arrest (1937)
2. Tabriz (1902-1912)
3. Tehran (1912-1922)
4. Berlin (1922-1928)
5. Foray in German Science
6. German Orientalists
7. Accidental Orientalist
8. Prewar and Postwar Psychology
9. Autodidact in Psychology
10. Debut in Political Activism
11. Political Reflections
12. The Quiet Period (1929-1933)
13. The Post-Quiet Period (1934-1937)
14. The Geopolitical Game
15. The End (1937-1940).