From an Invitation to an Ironic Reflection on the Structure of Iranian Governance to the Experience of Non-expressive Dialectics: Emphasizing on Views of Kigor, Althusser, Badiou , and Deleuze

Document Type : Original Article

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PhD in Sociology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract
The conceptual framework in this article is designed to overcome the epistemic impasse. This impasse is determination the type of Iran's economic system and our liberating praxis is to go beyond this impasse and addresses the issue of how Iran's economic system is reproduced. The existing structure in Iran is caught in an ironic and contradictory situation because the capitalist rules in the Iranian economy are reproduced in Iran through the anti-capitalist foreign policy of the government. In this article, we have used the method of irony based on Kierkegaard's theory, and we have also proposed the neo-Marxist configuration of this irony in the symptomatic reading and problematic break of Althusser, as well as Badiou's non-expressive dialectic and affirmative dialectic, in a concrete way. According to the findings of this research, adopting an ironic approach regarding the ratio of aggressive foreign policy and the type of domestic economic system, in the context of the theoretical capacities of the New Left, causes the certainty of some hypotheses to be questioned. And the problematic break from neoliberal discourse depends on the turn of capitalist rules because anti-capitalist foreign policy reproduces economic neoliberalism

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Volume 18, Issue 4
Winter 2025
Pages 159-185

  • Receive Date 22 February 2025
  • Revise Date 13 May 2025
  • Accept Date 07 October 2025
  • First Publish Date 07 October 2025
  • Publish Date 19 February 2025