consumer ethnocentrism as an important factor in consumers’ buying decisions of local or imported products has been the topic of so many researches. for this reason the present study by taking 230 students of university of isfahan as its statistical sample, first has tried to measure their ethnocentrism in consumption context, then by use of regression analysis the relation of consumer ethnocen...

This book redefines the relationship between Marxism and historiography within context of French Revolution.

cosmopolitanism, romantic movement, the development and extension of literature through communication devices and advancement of publishing technology were the sources of emergence of comparative literature.the present article studies the attempts of arab literary men in this field after it was introduced into arabic literature.

The flow of Marxism was one of the most powerful social-political currents of the Pahlavi opposition which, despite the progress of political upheavals and internal splits, reached the threshold of the Islamic Revolution. One of the main reasons for the success of this flow, compared to other rival currents, was the presence of numerous symbols in the context of this adventure. The symbols of t...

This article explores how social artistic interventions provide forms of everyday aesthetic cosmopolitanism – an intellectual and openness towards objects, places, experiences, activities that relates to the life people regardless identity, occupation, class, cultural/racial background, lifestyle in transforming urban voids into inclusive public spaces. Through socially engaged art, artists ins...

This article revisits Foucault’s analytics of power in the light of his lectures on governmentality and biopolitics in Society must be Defended (1975-6), Securité, territoire, population (1977-8) and Naissance de la biopolitique (1978-9). Foucault is renowned for his criticisms of state theory and advocacy of a bottom-up approach to social power; and for his hostility to many theoretical and pr...

Scholarly interest in Marxist philosophy has fluctuated dramatically in the past fifty years. Before that, there was little scholarly work in Britain on Marxist philosophy or on Marxism more generally. In the nineteen fifties there were important contributions by economic theorists and social historians but academic discussion of Marx's philosophy or even of his political theory was minimal and...