East and West Allama Jafari on Bertrand Russell [Hardcover]

Seyed Javad Miri points out that there remains a need for comparative philosophy within the modern worldan examination of the commitments, assumptions, worldviews, and lifeworlds [of both parties]. . . . [This will serve] to clear a path of demystification so that people of different societies and backgrounds may enter into a civil dialogue, discourse, and debate so as not to win over the opponent, but to gain the understanding of a friend.This book is an analysis of an Iranian philosophers engagement with a British philosopher. This is the first book of its kind. East and West will be a useful work for anyone who is interested in comparative philosophical and sociological studies.This book is an analysis of an Iranian philosophers engagement with a British philosopher. The author compares the ideas of these philosophers within the context of European and Iranian intellectual traditions. This is the first book of its kind, as no one has yet looked at Allama Jafaris thought in relation to Sir Bertrand Russells. East and West will be a useful work for anyone who is interested in comparative philosophical and sociological studies.Prologue by Dustin J. ByrdIntroductionChapter 1: Relocating the Parameters of Comparative PhilosophyChapter 2: Sir Bertrand Russell in a SnapshotMethodic DoubtIncommensurability RevisitedPhilosophy: Whats in a Name?Religion and Philosophical ProblematiquesRussell and ReligionOn Religion and Founders of ReligionChapter 3: The Global Future of ReligionIntellectuals versus SagesNon-discursive Historiography of Intellectual HistoryReligion and Eurocentrism in Russellian ParadigmReligion and the Question of NihilismRevelation and IntellectThe Roots of ReligionReligion and Philosophical InquiryThe Permanent PhenomenaThe Transitory PhenomenaCriterion of DistinctionThe Global Future of ReligionEpilogueReferencesSeyed Javad Miri is a Swedish-Iranian associate professor of sociology and history of religions at the Institute of Humanities and Culls#