From Erziehung to Bildung in the experience of modernity by Sadeq Hedayat

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Faculty of social sciences, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran

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Sadeq Hedayat's cultural modernism leads to the development of an educated subject, who can be said to be the source of the historical sociology of the experience of modernity in Iran. By referring to Hedayat's literary experience, we realize the conceptual difference between Bildung and Erziehung. Bildung is formed from a critical encounter with half-education, and Erziehung is a kind of detailed critical thinking that reaches the limits of cultivation through encounter with the Other. Rendering the sensorial paradigm of Iranian modernity inoperative is a social action that is possible only by decoding its time - a quality which makes the narrative form of The Blind Owl so chaotic. If we want to explicate the experience of Hedayat in The Blind Owl, there is no other way than looking for the realization of non-I and Other in it. The method that leads to this exactitude is constellation. The nomadic education is formed from the attention to places, from the retrospective encounter with memories, and the dynamic forces which are able to create changes in the process of subjectivity. The Blind Owl is an organic description of the disorder of the modern experience in Iran; The road map of heterotopia that reaches India, the Other which can be said to be present in the cavity of Self - as a promise.

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