Miri, Seyed Javad, Beyond Eurocentrism: Probing Into Epistemological Endeavors of Allama Jafari, Londres, LAIS, 2014, 78p.

In this book the author who is working at the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies in Tehran-Iran has attempted to reconfigure the question of epistemology within social sciences and humanities by arguing that we need to rethink the question of knowledge outside the parameters of disciplinary frame of references.

Contents

Prologue

1 Monological Dialogues

2 Disciplinary Rationality Revisited

• Deconstruction of Disciplinarity Rationality
• Heptafold Dimensions of Knowledge
• Relocating Epistemological Parameters
• Undisciplinarity and Coherency
• Indivisible Unity of Knowledge

3 Clerkish Mentalité in Human Sciences

•  Unthinking Religion by Reconstructing Epistemology
• Clerkish Viewpoint and Dilemmas of Sciences de l’Homme
• Heptafold Realms as Complimentarity and Incomplimentarity
• Interconnectivity and Realms of Knowledge
• Rereading Classics of Disciplinary Social Sciences
• Unity of Self as an Epistemological Prerequisite

4 Poetic-Philosophy as an Integral Approach to Knowledge

• Hafez and the Question of Knowledge
• Integral Knowledge and Scientific Reductionism
• Compartmentalization of Knowledge
• Religious Knowledge and Universal Culture
• Discipline as a Classificatory Marker

5 Alternative Epistemology

• Alternative Epistemic Orderliness
• Cul-de-sac of Eurocentric Rationalité
• Clerkish Rationalité
• Ensan-Shenas as an undisciplinary archetype
• Key Problems of Disciplinary Rationality

Epilogue

References

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