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Lecture
Daryush Shayegan Prof. Ata Hoodashtian, Ph.D. Management Institute of Canada
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''During the December 2008 lecture, I developed a number of ideas proposed by Iranian philosopher Daryush Shayegan, drawn from his latest philosophical work titled “La Lumière vient de l’Occident”. This work was published in Paris in French and published in Iran under another title. Shayegan here exposes the most contemporary debates, namely the relation between modernity and tradition, multiculturalism, the question of dual consciousness, of mutants, of migrants, of virtualization, of mysticism and of Buddhism.
As one will note, the topics are diverse and the debates broad. I have therefore chosen to develop only a select few of these ideas. Following the introductory presentation of Shayegan’s philosophical path, I have attempted to develop the content of the work in general, as well as the above themes and concepts, namely those of cultural diversity, of mutants and migrants and of virtualization. My attempt has been to provide a critical reading of these ideas. My critical views were briefly developed on the occasion of this lecture, particularly those which bear on the rather strong elitist slant of Shayegan’s thought, the regrettable absence of its social dimension, on the considerable confusion arising from the concept of paradigm, on the drift towards mysticism, on the concept of transmutation, which Shayegan brings forth as the only probable solution to the current ontological crisis, and on his approach to the crisis of modernity, which seem profoundly inappropriate. I have also underlined a certain lack of vision as pertains to Gilles Deleuze’s concept of Rhizome.''
Ata Hoodashtian
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