An unavoidable question when it comes to producing political theory in a reflective way is what
it means to think politically. Any answer to this question that is open to a post-colonial
sensibility and to the contingency of history should take into account the fact that
comparative political theory recognises a multiplicity of canons other than that of the West
as well as the connection between the production of political thought and historical events
pointed out by thinkers such as Arendt or Badiou. One of these events with global repercussions
namely the Iranian Revolution of 1979 provides a very propitious occasion to think politically
in this framework and to ask for example what the basis of authority is what democracy is
or what is meant by criticism. The seven essays compiled in this work written by Iranian
German and Latin American authors inspired by the ideas and theories of Khomeini Habermas or
Foucault revolve around these themes and are examples of contemporary exercises in political
theory motivated by this singular event.
