Abstract

Parallel to the emergence of Postmodernism and the collapse of modernist and Enlightenment ideals, Persian thinkers also theorized about this matter. One of these thinkers is Reza Davari Ardakani who challenges Modernism by using Heidegger’s ideas and Islamic-Shiites sources. Following phenomenological tradition, he introduces the West as a whole and in this way he criticizes those who distinguish between western science, technology, literature and western imperialism and politics. His line of criticism toward Modernism is Humanism and after such criticism he subverts other pillars of Modernism, that is, rationalism and science. He emphasizes the point that Postmodernism is not a period after Modernism but its final and crucial phase. On the basis of this, he believes that the only way out of Western and Humanist thinking is renouncing western ideologies and subjectivism. This article aims to investigate ideas of Reza Davari about the West with a philosophical view.