The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid (2015)
@ The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Thursday, February 20th, from 6PM - 8PM
At the center of this engrossing documentary history is Ahmad Fardid, a 20th-century Iranian philosopher who rejected “Westoxification,” or the pernicious effect of Western culture on Iranian society. Directors Hamed Yousefi and Ali Mirsepassi navigate his inscrutable, yet highly influential theories (which reflect the dual influence of Martin Heidegger and political Islam) using scholarly interviews and astonishing archival footage. Whether praised as an intellectual leader or condemned as a charlatan, Fardid’s peculiar example tests the limits of Modernism’s claims to universality. In English and Farsi with English subtitles.
The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid
(Ali Mirsepassi & Hamed Yousefi, 2015, digital, 85 min, in English and Farsi with English subtitles)
Hamed Yousefi (Co-director and Northwestern University doctoral candidate in Art History), Hannah Feldman (Northwestern Associate Professor of Art History), and W.J.T Mitchell (Professor of English and Art History at University of Chicago and editor of Critical Inquiry) will take part in a post screening discussion moderated by Danny Postel (Assistant Director of the Center for International and Area Studies.)
Special Event
Thursday, February 20th, 6 PM
FREE
Co-presented by Block Cinema with the Iranian-American Fund for Cultural Programming, the Critical Theory Program, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Northwestern University Department of Art History, and MENA: Middle East and North African Studies at Northwestern University.
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