Abstract

Family and educational background; recollections of early intellectual activities in Iran and meeting with leading philosophers and mystics; recollections of the cultural ambience of Tehran University’s Faculty of Letters; working, agenda and objectives of the Iranian Center for the Study of Cultures; cultural and sociopolitical views of the intelligentsia in the 1960s and 1970s; on the interactions of various intellectual trends in Iran; intellectuals and the Revolution of 1978-79.