فهرست مطالب seyyed gholamreza davazdahemami

The concepts of "power" and "culture" have undergone semantic changes in recent years. Today, "cultural power "is considered the basis of national power. The role of "culture" in increasing the "soft power" and "soft security" of a country has become more serious and influential in the development of power in every country. The conceptual transition of power from the field of hardware to software has become the center of focus among political executives. This transition necessitates its own specific conditions among which we can refer to the type of political culture. The Islamic Revolution of Iran is endowed with a unique cultural structure that distinguishes it from other revolutions in the world. This is rooted in self-sacrificial culture, martyrdom and resistance that arise from people's deep religious convictions. This research has been carried out using library and documentary methods and the analysis of the gathered data with descriptive-analytical method. At first, there is a reference to the development of power, soft power, and components of soft power with an emphasis on sacrificial and resistance cultures and subsequent to the enemies' cultural invasion and attempt to sow seeds of tension and crises in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the results prove the necessity of relying on the genuine and priceless Islamic cultures of sacrifice and resistance as the best strategy and model of improving both the soft power and soft security.

For some theorists, rationality without spirituality is a prominent feature of modernity. The present paper investigates modernity, rationality and spirituality from Imam Khomeini’ viewpoint about the Islamic world and Michel Foucault’s from the West. The experience of modernity has proved that the self-founded rationality of human without presence of spirituality and metaphysics’ world has not been successful in conducting human to his main location. By formation of the discourse of the Islamic Revolution with Imam Khomeini’s leadership, the forgotten position of spirituality was revived and Michel Foucault was impressed by this issue. The findings of this study indicate that because of omitting spirituality, modernity has been encountered by fundamental impasse while for Imam Khomeini, the way out of this impasse is human movement toward the world of meaning. In this regard, the present study has used library and internet materials and applied an analytico-descriptive method to analyze the data.