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A Conversation with Adel Mashayekhi on Banality: The Courage to Live in a World Without the Other

The concept of banality in Iranian intellectual discourse has often become vague and reduced to a moral judgment. By linking it to subjugation and submission before the 'big Other,' Adel Mashayekhi sees the rigidity of the conventional as an obstacle to the emergence of the new, and identifies true art as that which enables subjectivation.

April 12, 201953 min45KSociologyA Conversation with Adel Mashayekhi on Banality: The Courage to Live in a World Without the Other

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A Conversation with Adel Mashayekhi on Banality: The Courage to Live in a World Without the Other

A Conversation with Adel Mashayekhi on Banality: The Courage to Live in a World Without the Other

Second Series of Ofogh-e Goftogu Sessions: Islamic Philosophy and the Problem of Modernity