The narrowness of life- world in the Iran; Investigating the relationship between the system and the life-world from Qajar the Islamic Revolution

Mozdkhah, Ehsan; Manshadi, Morteza; Hamidi, Somaye

doi:10.22034/ipsa.2024.512

The narrowness of life- world in the Iran; Investigating the relationship between the system and the life-world from Qajar the Islamic Revolution

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Ehsan Mozdkhah ¹

Morteza Manshadi ²

Somaye Hamidi ³

¹ Ph.D. student of political science, majoring in Iran issues, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.

² Associated ProfessorAssociate Professor, Department of Political Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.

³ Faculty member of Political Science Department, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22034/ipsa.2024.512

Abstract

By reflecting on Jürgen Habermas's theory of world exploitation, this research examines the influence of the system as a factor or obstacle to the evolution of the Iranian world and the public sphere from the Qajar period to the Islamic Revolution. Therefore, the analysis of the Iranian Life-world and the impact of the exploitation of the biosphere on social political developments is the focus of this research. The research question is: How was the relationship between the system and the life of the world from the Qajar period to the Islamic revolution, and what is its relationship with political-social developments? The hypothesis of the research is presented in such a way that Iranians have faced a serious obstacle to the evolution of world life in two historical places. In the first place, the depravity of the Qajar world and in the second place, the Pahlavi government, by systematically reproducing the exploitation of the Iranian world, prevented the formation of communicative action and ultimately social reaction in the form of the Islamic Revolution. The method of this research is the use of historical data as well as library-documentary studies.

Keywords

Habermas

life-World

Qajar

Pahlavi

exploitation

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