Ramin Jahanbegloo
Biographic Data
| ID | 462229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ramin Jahanbegloo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ramin |
| FAMILY NAME | Jahanbegloo |
| SIGNATURE | JAHANBEGLOO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8838-9767 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Gandhian Moment of Paul Ricoeur
Paul Ricoeur: Towards New Approaches
Zola: An Intellectual Quest for Justice
Mapping Dissent
Gandhi and the Idea of Swaraj
Le fantôme de la Révolution iranienne
Un an après la mort de Mahsa Amini
Cet article analyse le retour en emploi des bénéficiaires du revenu de solidarité active (RSA) sur une longue période ainsi que ses déterminants. Au travers d’une analyse de séquence, cinq classes de trajectoires se dégagent. Sur une décennie, le retour durable en emploi concerne à peine un bénéficiaire du RSA sur cinq, réparti en deux classes de trajectoires. Pour la trajectoire salariée (12 %), ce retour en emploi s’accompagne d’une sortie dura…
L'éveil politique d'une génération en Iran
Les manifestations qui ont balayé l'Iran, suite à la mort de Mahsa Jina Amini en détention et contre le port obligatoire du hijab, suggèrent l'effondrement de l'idéologie théocratique du régime iranien
Camus et la critique de la violence
Mapping the individual and the community in Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr
The protests which followed the death of Black citizens killed by White police officers in the United States show us clearly that the question of non-violent democratic theory is on the table as it was 60 years ago. Martin Luther King, Jr. was well aware of this issue when he became the most important leader of America’s Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King’s recognition of Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy of non-violence helped him in his c…
Gandhi and the Global Satyagraha
It is a common view to say that satyagraha was conducted by a person like Gandhi who was brought up in a cultural setting familiar with the concept of self-suffering and non-violence. But it would be a mistake to judge the Gandhian satyagraha in terms of cultural background. The recent global history of non-violent action has shown us clearly that satyagraha is a seed that can grow and flourish in other cultures and religions as well. Among the f…
La face cachée du Canada
La récente découverte d'un charnier rappelle l'histoire tragique du système de pensionnats pour enfants autochtones au Canada. Si des efforts ont été réalisés, les Premières Nations ne font toujours pas partie du récit national
Hobbes à Téhéran
Les Iraniens se retrouvent confrontes a un Etat au pouvoir absolu. Le fosse se creuse entre les citoyens et le regime, au point de marquer un tournant irreversible
Iran/États-Unis: Un Jeu Dangereux
Les tensions entre Teheran et Washington, qui durent depuis 1979, sont encore montees d'un cran avec l'elimination du general Soleimani. La possibilite d’une confrontation extreme avec les Etats-Unis plane sur l’avenir politique et securitaire de l’Iran, avec des consequences pour toute la region
La révolution iranienne est finie
Après la révolution iranienne, la souveraineté religieuse, représentée par les Gardiens de la révolution islamique, a pris le dessus sur la souveraineté populaire, qui n'a plus d'organisation
L'Iran perd patience
La bataille pour l'âme de l'Inde
Gandhi aujourd'hui
Le 150e anniversaire de la naissance du Mahatma Gandhi nous offre l’occasion de reflechir a l’etat de la violence dans notre monde et a la contribution de la non-violence a la survie de notre planete
Talking Sociology: Dipankar Gupta in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
A well-known name in contemporary sociology, Dipankar Gupta’s wide range of scholarship and popular columns have justly earned him the reputation of being one of India’s leading public intellectuals. Talking Sociology provides a complete panorama of Gupta’s life and works and his contribution to Indian sociology. In this book of conversations, he shares insights into the key areas of Indian sociology, such as the problem of social stratification,…
Dariush Shayegan (1935‒2018), Scholar of Comparative Philosophy and Cultural Critic
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En quête de l’âme iranienne , Daryush Shayegan (1935-2018)
Talking History: Romila Thapar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo with the Participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya
Talking History records a series of conversations that centre on the writing of history, and especially early Indian history, as evident in the works of Romila Thapar. She has focused on the study of early India but is also interested in the link between the past and the present. Whereas she recognizes the importance of analysing texts of ancient India for information on early history, which she does in her various studies of the past, she is als…
Lineage and Kingship
In speaking about her initial work on the Mauryan king Ashoka, Romila Thapar discusses the juxtaposition between the ethical and the political in Indian history. In exploring the meaning of Buddhism for those times she argues for a notion of dissent being implicit in such philosophies that later came to be grouped together as the Shramana dharma in opposition to the Brahmana dharma . The aim of renouncers was to propagate and adopt an alternate k…
The Historian and the Epic
The discussion in this section focuses on how a historian, who is a rationalist and follows a chronological sequence of events in history, analyses the assumptions of epic literature where historicity is of little consequence. Thapar explains that it is not necessary to prove that the events described in the epics are historically accurate, but clarifies that the historian can derive an understanding of the kind of societies represented in the ep…
L'Iran après Rafsandjani
This article summarizes the results of research on career blockages among experienced managers in the French Ministry of Ecology. It aims to present the challenges of an unfinished transition between a historical administrative model and a “market” model supposedly more attentive to skills, particularly managerial skills. We show on the one hand how some agents have been disadvantaged by the new rules of the game and on the other hand how a minor…
The Role of the Intellectuals
Two decades after Iran's Islamic revolution, the majority of the Iranian people manifested their despair and frustration with the outcome of the revolution by voting for democratic reform in the 2000 parliamentary elections. The revolution had failed to fulfill its promise of establishing a state in which people with all kinds of political views could participate in the affairs of the country. In 1997, Mohammed Khatami rose out of the revolutiona…
The Two Sovereignties and the Legitimacy Crisis in Iran
Pressures from Below
Predicting the outcome of the struggle for political leadership in Iran has become a popular parlor game in some circles in Washington and other Western capitals. But there is also genuine anxiety about this struggle throughout the world, quite understandably given Iran's vital regional and international importance, along with the huge stakes involved not only for Iranians but for Americans and Europeans, not to mention Iran's immediate neighbors…
Iran and the Democratic Struggle in the Middle East
Many commentators in the West have referred to the uprisings sweeping the Middle East and the Maghreb as the “Arab Spring”. If we take a closer look at the young Middle Easterners who launched these democratic demands, it is clear that the Arab Spring started in Iran back in June 2009. As such, the Arab Uprising had a non-Arab beginning in Iran’s Green Movement, and in what was known as the “Twitter Revolution” of young Iranians. Furthermore, the…
Acting under Tyranny: Hannah Arendt and the Foundations of Democracy in Iran
Amidst the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East and the reshaping of political systems in the region, the Iranian people remain mired in difficulties on their path to democratization.The obstacles hindering them have been examined in great detail since the post-election crisis of 2009, yet little seems to have been gained in the way of overcoming them.This standstill could be blamed largely on the repressive mechanisms of the state.In reality, howe…
Legitimacy Crisis and the Future of Democracy in Iran
The Gandhian Vision of Democracy
The article deals with Mohandas K. Gandhi's theory of democracy and its related civic practices. It indicates the relation between Gandhi's idea of civic duty and his idea of democracy, and argues that few would dispute that Gandhi was one of the most original and transformative thinkers of democracy. The article maintains that among his many notable contributions, Gandhi is rightly credited with emphasizing on the ideas of citizenship duty, trut…
On Margins, Marginals, and Marginalities: A Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Etre Francais est une evidence: on n’en souffre ni on ne s’en rejouit ... . Le paradoxe d’etre Persan (en l’occurrence, Roumain) est un tourment qu’il faut savoir exploiter, un defaut dont on doit ti
Is a Muslim Gandhi possible: Integrating cultural and religious plurality in Islamic traditions
In the past decade, Islam has come to be associated more than ever with images of extremism and violence. Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are stock characters in this association, in the aftermath of 11 September and the ‘war on terror’. Lost in all this is a long record of Muslim experience of non-violent change and peace-making. Yet Islam hardly glorifies violence — and does quite explicitly glorify its opposite. History offers much evidence…
Philosophical Interrogation and Creation of Democracy: Iran Confronts Modern Destiny
Mahatma Gandhi: The Prophet of Tolerance
Mahatma Gandhi was one of those rare human beings who was simultaneously a theoretician and practitioner of tolerance. Gandhi was possessed of an inner conviction that tolerance was not only one of the key words of his own century but of centuries still to come. It is in this sense that his ideas on non-violence and tolerance transcend the context of India itself, even though these ideas were initially conceived in relation to India's independenc…
The Role of the Intellectuals
Two decades after Iran's Islamic revolution, the majority of the Iranian people manifested their despair and frustration with the outcome of the revolution by voting for democratic reform in the 2000 parliamentary elections. The revolution had failed to fulfill its promise of establishing a state in which people with all kinds of political views could participate in the affairs of the country. In 1997, Mohammed Khatami rose out of the revolutiona…
Pressures from Below
Predicting the outcome of the struggle for political leadership in Iran has become a popular parlor game in some circles in Washington and other Western capitals. But there is also genuine anxiety about this struggle throughout the world, quite understandably given Iran's vital regional and international importance, along with the huge stakes involved not only for Iranians but for Americans and Europeans, not to mention Iran's immediate neighbors…
Edward Said’s Conception of the Public Intellectual as “Outsider”
Edward Said's mode of intellectual thinking cannot be categorized in terms of concepts such as liberal, socialist or anarchist. In this sense, Said remained all his life, through his work and his action, an outsider. This created in him an acute awareness of the world and a critical sense of resistance to all forms of political and intellectual domination. In consequence, Said detects a particularly revealing relationship between a deep-seated co…
Beyond nationalism: The universality of nonviolence
Legitimacy Crisis and the Future of Democracy in Iran
In Search of the Sacred: A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought
In this book, a series of interviews offers an accessible, revealing, human and intellectual biography of leading Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is one of the preeminent philosophers writing today. Sure to be a key resource for decades to come, In Search of the Sacred: A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought illuminates Nasr's experiences and shares his insights on topics from religion and philoso…
Is a Muslim Gandhi possible: Integrating cultural and religious plurality in Islamic traditions
In the past decade, Islam has come to be associated more than ever with images of extremism and violence. Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are stock characters in this association, in the aftermath of 11 September and the ‘war on terror’. Lost in all this is a long record of Muslim experience of non-violent change and peace-making. Yet Islam hardly glorifies violence — and does quite explicitly glorify its opposite. History offers much evidence…
The Two Sovereignties and the Legitimacy Crisis in Iran
Two Concepts of Secularism
Secularism, for many of us, is not a terra incognita, and yet it is certainly an improperly defined and unexplained concept. For more than 150 years, intellectuals, politicians, and theologians have used secular and secularism in a rather ambiguous way. These terms therefore need to be clarified. The time has come to rethink our whole approach to the question of secularism. Given the inapplicability of the French model of secularism to the Muslim…
Iran and the Democratic Struggle in the Middle East
Many commentators in the West have referred to the uprisings sweeping the Middle East and the Maghreb as the “Arab Spring”. If we take a closer look at the young Middle Easterners who launched these democratic demands, it is clear that the Arab Spring started in Iran back in June 2009. As such, the Arab Uprising had a non-Arab beginning in Iran’s Green Movement, and in what was known as the “Twitter Revolution” of young Iranians. Furthermore, the…
Iran, la République contre Dieu
Absent des « printemps arabes », l'Iran avait pourtant préfiguré la volonté de changement, à travers les manifestations de juin 2009 contre la confiscation des élections. Le mouvement de contestation a su rester pacifique et a mis en évidence le décalage entre légitimité populaire et légitimité islamique, censées aller de pair dans le régime de Téhéran
On Margins, Marginals, and Marginalities: A Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Etre Francais est une evidence: on n’en souffre ni on ne s’en rejouit ... . Le paradoxe d’etre Persan (en l’occurrence, Roumain) est un tourment qu’il faut savoir exploiter, un defaut dont on doit ti
Acting under Tyranny: Hannah Arendt and the Foundations of Democracy in Iran
Amidst the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East and the reshaping of political systems in the region, the Iranian people remain mired in difficulties on their path to democratization.The obstacles hindering them have been examined in great detail since the post-election crisis of 2009, yet little seems to have been gained in the way of overcoming them.This standstill could be blamed largely on the repressive mechanisms of the state.In reality, howe…
Le « nouveau réformisme » iranien
Martin Luther King: Le Gandhi américain
L'avenir de la non-violence: Un entretien avec Ramin Jahanbegloo
The Pursuit of Excellence and the Role of Philosophy
David Robertson, the American conductor, addressing his audience while conducting the 2009 Last Night of the Proms, reflected on the makeup of his orchestra: "When looking at strife in the world, and for examples of overcoming it, just think of the orchestra. All the instruments you see originated in different parts of the world. They have different histories and modifications. They look different and produce different sounds. But here they are p…
Martin Luther King: The American Gandhi
This article originally explores the philosophical background of Martin Luther King, Jr's conception of nonviolence. In particular, it focuses on the role of the theory of love for the development of his thought. It takes into account the role of King's religious education, and establishes theoretical links to Gandhi's own philosophy and action
The Gandhian Vision of Democracy
The article deals with Mohandas K. Gandhi's theory of democracy and its related civic practices. It indicates the relation between Gandhi's idea of civic duty and his idea of democracy, and argues that few would dispute that Gandhi was one of the most original and transformative thinkers of democracy. The article maintains that among his many notable contributions, Gandhi is rightly credited with emphasizing on the ideas of citizenship duty, trut…
Two concepts of pluralism: A comparative study of Mahatma Gandhi and Isaiah Berlin
This article argues that Mohandas K. Gandhi and Isaiah Berlin remain the two main thinkers of pluralism in the 20 th century. Though the two never met and despite their essential differences, the two political thinkers can be read as complementary in order to hold on to the idea of a common human horizon. As such, Gandhi’s transformative conception of pluralism, exemplified by his universal method of transforming liberal citizenship into a civic …
Un philosophe en prison
Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism: At Home and in the World
The world is evolving, and Islam is a religion that has been under scrutiny since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and more recently after the terrorist attacks in Europe, with regard to its future role in the process of democracy building in Middle East and North Africa and in relation to global politics. When viewed in this light, an analysis of the democratic aspirations of contemporary Muslims is an urgent philosophical and sociologic…
Géopolitique du Golfe
Political science (40 works) · Philosophy (35 works) · Law (23 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Islamic Studies and History (19 works) · Politics (17 works) · Art (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (12 works) · Democracy (11 works)