Fuku in Iran

Was Michel Foucault's controversial visit to Tehran and the thirteen articles he wrote between 1978 and 1979 in support of the Iranian Revolution a deviation from his previous work, or is it an inescapable dilemma in his stance on Enlightenment rationality as critics have long claimed? Bahruz Ghamari Tavirani says that critics are mistaken, as Michel Foucault realized that Iranians were on the brink of a rupture in the history of global revolutions and were inaugurating a era that makes thinking about dignity, justice, and freedom outside the maps and principles of European Enlightenment possible, even if the revolution failed practically to achieve that. This book does not focus only on Michel Foucault's writings about the revolution, which he wrote for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, but also on the profound impact that the event left on his subsequent lectures on ethics, spirituality, and liberated speech, making contemporary events since September 11, the war on terror, and Arab uprisings more connected to Foucault's articles on the Iranian Revolution than ever before.