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Dossier Iran

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A quasi quarantantacinque anni dalla nascita della Repubblica Islamica, l’Iran è attraversato da rivolte e scioperi che sfidano il potere delle autorità religiose. La rivoluzione iraniana sembra irrimediabilmente giunta alla sua fine. Di quell’evento, sorto tra il 1978 e il 1979, conserviamo una testimonianza pressoché quella di Michel Foucault.
In collaborazione con il Corriere della Sera, nel settembre del 1978 Foucault partiva alla volta di Teheran per poi tornarvi a novembre, pubblicando dieci reportage sulla sollevazione popolare di cui era stato testimone. Le polemiche attorno a quel viaggio furono con l’istituzione della Repubblica Islamica e dei primi tribunali rivoluzionari, i media occidentali sottolinearono subito l’«abbaglio», se non l’irresponsabilità, del filosofo nel porre l’accento su una presunta «spiritualità politica» della rivoluzione degli ayatollah. A mezzo secolo da quei reportage e a venticinque dalla loro parziale pubblicazione,
Dossier Iran raccoglie per la prima volta tutti i materiali prodotti da Foucault sulla rivoluzione iraniana. Ne emerge una originale riflessione che, al di là del catastrofico esito di quell’evento, mostra l’irriducibile singolarità dell’iniziale sollevazione popolare e le speranze che la accompagnarono.

«Mi sento in imbarazzo a parlare del governo islamico come “idea” o anche come “ideale”. Ma come “volontà politica”, mi ha colpito. Mi ha colpito per il suo sforzo di politicizzare, in risposta a problemi attuali, strutture indissolubilmente sociali e religiose; mi ha colpito anche per il suo tentativo di aprire nella politica una dimensione spirituale».

«Tutti i grandi rivolgimenti politici, sociali e culturali hanno potuto effettivamente prendere posto nella storia
solo a partire da un movimento che è stato un movimento di spiritualità».

211 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2023

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Michel Foucault

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Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels. His thought has influenced academics, especially those working in communication studies, anthropology, psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural studies, literary theory, feminism, Marxism and critical theory.
Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser, and at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he earned degrees in philosophy and psychology. After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness (1961). After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), publications that displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, from which he later distanced himself. These first three histories exemplified a historiographical technique Foucault was developing called "archaeology".
From 1966 to 1968, Foucault lectured at the University of Tunis before returning to France, where he became head of the philosophy department at the new experimental university of Paris VIII. Foucault subsequently published The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969). In 1970, Foucault was admitted to the Collège de France, a membership he retained until his death. He also became active in several left-wing groups involved in campaigns against racism and human rights abuses and for penal reform. Foucault later published Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976), in which he developed archaeological and genealogical methods that emphasized the role that power plays in society.
Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS; he became the first public figure in France to die from complications of the disease. His partner Daniel Defert founded the AIDES charity in his memory.

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