Iranian Political Science Association Research Letter of Political Science 1735790X 13 3 2018 09 21 MODERNITY AND CONTEMPORARY IDENTITY CRISIS IN THE LIGHT OF DARIUSH SHAYGAN’S THEORIES MODERNITY AND CONTEMPORARY IDENTITY CRISIS IN THE LIGHT OF DARIUSH SHAYGAN’S THEORIES 157 183 355 FA Meisam Nazari Habibollah Fazeli Journal Article 2018 05 23 Darisuh Shaygan, besides Seyed Ahmad Fardid, Jalal Al Ahmad and Ali Shariati, is one of the most prominent intellectuals of Iran’s recent five decades. He has dwelled on the concepts of Identity and Iranian Identity in regard to the challenges in the world today. This article is intended to find out the approach of Darisuh Sahygan towards identity crisis and challenges in the modern contemporary world. The main underlying idea is that he, emphasizing upon the maintenance of native identity, had never totally rejected the western culture, but he has proposed the necessity of having knowledge and understanding about the western culture. Therefore, the most important characteristics of Shaygan’s writings and opinions are his simultaneous criticism of “eastern traditional ideology” and “western modernization ideology. This article focuses on Shaygan’s mental endeavors with regard to the authentic and original identity in traditional cultures and civilizations in confronting the modern world and modernization. Darisuh Shaygan, besides Seyed Ahmad Fardid, Jalal Al Ahmad and Ali Shariati, is one of the most prominent intellectuals of Iran’s recent five decades. He has dwelled on the concepts of Identity and Iranian Identity in regard to the challenges in the world today. This article is intended to find out the approach of Darisuh Sahygan towards identity crisis and challenges in the modern contemporary world. The main underlying idea is that he, emphasizing upon the maintenance of native identity, had never totally rejected the western culture, but he has proposed the necessity of having knowledge and understanding about the western culture. Therefore, the most important characteristics of Shaygan’s writings and opinions are his simultaneous criticism of “eastern traditional ideology” and “western modernization ideology. This article focuses on Shaygan’s mental endeavors with regard to the authentic and original identity in traditional cultures and civilizations in confronting the modern world and modernization. http://www.ipsajournal.ir/article_355_82cec96096d4281b7c95cd7e74623496.pdf