![]() He purports to reveal how the cosmopolitanism of world cultures is ultimately too powerful for even the architects of the discourse of cultural authenticity to insulate themselves hermetically. He argues that just as the conceptually universalistic category of the modern is a product of European Enlightenment thinking, similarly the discourse of the local or the ethnic as the authentic is a product of the Western counter-Enlightenment. Mirsepassi sets himself the task of decoding the phenomenon of political Islam as one such discourse of authenticity. ![]() ![]() The title under review is an extremely complex treatment of a major phenomenon in the modern world-the discourse of authenticity in local, regional, or national settings, developed as a negotiating strategy vis-à-vis the onslaught of modernization in the twentieth century and now vis-à-vis globalization. ![]()
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