Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong

Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong

Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong was written by and Cyrus Schayegh. The 352 page book was published by Univ of California Press in 2009 with an ISBN 10 of 0520943546. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong mentions 1 serial killers including Ali Asghar Borujerdi. The author Cyrus Schayegh has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

In Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong, Cyrus Schayegh tells two intertwined stories: how, in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging middle class used modern scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems like the increasing stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower, and demographic stagnation. The book examines the ways by which scientific knowledge allowed the Iranian modernists to socially differentiate themselves from society at large and, at the very same time, to intervene in it. In so doing, it argues that both class formation and social reform emerged at the interstices of local Iranian and Western-dominated glob...