Taghi Erani, a Polymath in Interwar Berlin Fundamental Science, Psyc
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
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Taghi Erani, a Polymath in Interwar Berlin
Younes Jalali
Taghi Erani, a Polymath in Interwar Berlin Fundamental Science, Psychology, Orientalism, and Political Philosophy
Younes Jalali Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, Yvelines France
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Preface
This is the story of someone who came of age in 1920s, Berlin, a time and place with no shortage of shorthand in popular culture and mythology— the capital of eccentricity; a city that doubled its population overnight, four million strong, incorporating the settlements and hamlets on its periphery by administrative ordinance; with an institute dedicated to the study of sex, another to alchemy of the mind, another demystifying life as making and breaking of chemical bonds; Austro-Hungarian refugees, white Russians, maimed veterans, cafes, newsstands, jazz clubs, a “Republic without Republicans”;1 the right wanting their emperor, the left communism, very little in-between; Wedding and Neukölln preparing for class warfare; barricades of Berlin in run-down neighborhoods in the run-up to May Day; social democrats in bed with right-wing parties; the left seeking salvation in
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