Vahdat, Farzin creator text Syracuse Syracuse University Press 2002 monographic xviii, 265 p. ; 23 cm. The nature of modernity -- Iran's experiment with modernity -- The dawn of modernity in Iran : positivist subjectivity and universalizable subjectivity -- The eclipse of universalizable subjectivity and the quest for a collective subject -- The Islamic discourse and modernity -- Islamic revolutionary thought : the self as mediated subjectivity -- Postrevolutionary discourses : the contraction and expansion of subjectivity. Farzin Vahdat Nationalism Religion and state Iran Historiography Intellectual life Islam and politics 306.0955 VAH/G 0815629222