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The End of Modernity: Heidegger and Iran

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How the Islamic Revolution strangled Western Thought into submission

When the first world war broke out, a new sense of euphoria was born in Europe. To many intellectuals, it seemed to be the death of Marxism and historical materialism; it was the triumph of the spiritual over the economic, an event on a scale that the world has never seen before. Describing the atmosphere in Vienna at the news of the outbreak of the war, Austrian writer Stefan Zweig observed that “As never before, thousands-hundreds of thousands-felt what they should have felt in peacetime; that they belonged to a great nation .... Each one was called upon to cast his infinitesimal self into…

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