Taghi Erani, a Polymath in Interwar Berlin Fundamental Science, Psychology, Orientalism, and Political Philosophy /

• Main Author: Jalali, Younes (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Middle East-History.; Europe, Central-History.; Intellectual life-History.; History of the Middle East.; History of Germany and Central Europe.; Intellectual Studies.

A prominent civil servant, scientist, and intellectual, Taghi Erani was a pivotal figure in interwar Iran. Witness to two of the major political upheavals in the twentieth century-the rise of Pahlavi and the collapse of the Weimar Republic-he turned from fundamental science to leftwing activism and...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Arrest (1937)
• 2. Tabriz (1902-1912)
• 3. Tehran (1912-1922)
• 4. Berlin (1922-1928)
• 5. Foray in German Science
• 6. German Orientalists
• 7. Accidental Orientalist
• 8. Prewar and Postwar Psychology
• 9. Autodidact in Psychology
• 10. Debut in Political Activism
• 11. Political Reflections
• 12. The Quiet Period (1929-1933)
• 13. The Post-Quiet Period (1934-1937)
• 14. The Geopolitical Game
• 15. The End (1937-1940).