Romanticism and Encounter of Iranian Intellectual with Alienation, Nostalgia and Enlightenment Rationality Dilemma in Pahlavi II Era

In response to the bad condition due to the political despotism, Pahlavi II intellectuals applied some statements of New Romanticism against current socio-political situation in their work, but since romanticism in new trend was shifted to the subjective and mental revolution versus European life reality, they couched to the imaginary world and so opposed to the modernity and its accomplishments. In readout of the roots of some of the principles of romanticism discourse in some intellectuals’ works, authors at this article emphasis on this idea that opposition to modernity and its agents in Iran, was largely influenced by the new left wave and so the slogans such as return to self, west antagonism and anti rationalism, comes from romantic discourse. In final analysis, these intellectual slogans in that historical period have no roots in Iranian everyday life.