Lecture on Foucault and the Iranian Revolution by Janet Afary and Kevin Anderson (Big Ideas, TV Ontario, Canada)
This talk features Janet Afary and Kevin Anderson — Purdue University professors and authors of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution — who raise the question as to why a thinker of Foucault’s stature would invest his intellectual capital in supporting a movement that proved itself opposed to the principles of Enlightenment. And so the debate goes on….
Kevin B. Anderson and Janet Afary: Lecture on Foucault and the Iranian Revolution