Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Mostafa KHaleghpour ¹
• mohammadbagher khorramshad ²
• shoja ahmadvand ²

¹ ph.d student of political thoughts. Allammeh tabatabaie university, tehran, iran.

² Professor, Department of law and Political Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The present article deals with the issue of authority and its relationship with political subjectivity in the second Pahlavi era. The article assumes that with the constitutional event, modern political subjectivity emerged in Iran. By rereading the history of political thought from the dual perspective of subject-authority as the theoretical perspective of the research, applying the political phenomenology method and utilizing the concept of "life-world", the present study rereads the strategies of power of the second Pahlavi era to establish a model of the relationship between subject and authority and reveals its successes and failures. The argument of the present study is that the issue of authority and its relationship with the modern subject can be explained by explaining a kind of "inversion" in contemporary Iranian history; an inversion that indicates the primacy of the political over the social in the history of Iran after the constitutional era. The primacy of the political over the social placed the state above society and society, as a parasite and the subject of government policies, was considered lacking in founding and stabilizing status in political life.

Keywords

• Subjectivity
• authority
• political subjectivity
• crisis of authority
• Pahlavi II

Main Subjects

• Iranian Domestic Policy