The New Space: Genesis and Background

About the Book

In The New Space: Genesis and Background, author Bahman Bazargani considers the idea that the quasi-aesthetic focus of attraction of the polytheistic era was the brave hero. This quasi-aesthetic focus of attraction overshadows all the other parameters of that paradigm. Liberty in that paradigm meant the liberty of moving in three dimensions. In contrast, during the monotheistic paradigm, the meaning of liberty was drastically changed and overshadowed by the quasi-aesthetic focus of attraction of that paradigm that is by the eternity/other world.

Bazargani further strives to show that the era of reason was somehow an autocratic era that had a great impression upon the modern time while it was philosophically more tolerant the two centuries before. Throughout The New Space: Genesis and Background, he examines the changes that the concept of liberty experiences from the classic teachings to the present and the new quasi-aesthetic focus of attraction, which as a metavalue and the “true” meaning of life overshadows all the other social values. He posits that although there is a consensus that liberty is the meaning of life, but that there is no consensus on the meaning of liberty.

Finally, Bazargani comes to the conclusion that horizontal respect is a new principle that can be the new quasi-aesthetic focus of attraction and a metavalue that would overshadow all the social values, even liberty itself—the beginning of the new space, pluralist mega space.

About the Author

Bahman Bazargani, an Iranian philosopher and researcher in the relation between beauty and evolution of man, is the author of three books in Persian: The Matrix of Beauty(2002), The New Space(2010), and The Pluralist Critic, all published in Tehran.