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Faculty of Social Sciences,, University of Tehran
Abstract
This paper is about how a revolutionary subject was born at the intersection of language and materiality in Tehran in the lead up to the 1979 Revolution. More specifically, it seeks to illuminate the interconnections between the vocabulary of one of the ideologues of the Iranian Revolution, Ali Shariati, the object world, and the formation of a revolutionary subject in Tehran. This analysis progresses by examining the fusion of things like the moon, bodies, and expensive cologne, on the one hand, and Shariati’s key terms such as “Good and Evil,” “oppression” and “Imperialism,” on the other. Relying on the biographical narrative interpretive method (BNIM), which draws from the sociological tradition of in-depth hermeneutics, the paper shows how the confluence of these linguistic and material worlds afforded and diffused the agencies that traversed the revolution and its subjects.
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