Formation of the Romantic Mental Currents in Iran's Politics; From the Constitutional Movement to the 1330s

This essay is an inquiry about the formation of the romantic mental currents in Iran’s politics, from the Constitutional Movement to the 1330s. The process of the formation of romanticism and the enmity with reason, provoked the antagonism of reason and the poetic in the current history of Iran. The Constitutional movement which was supposed to be the turning point of the application of reason and reasonable expediency in Iran’s politics, eventually resulted in romanticism, that one can find its appearance in mysticism, archaism, the return to the self and revolutionism. Romanticism highlighted the utopian aspects of Iran’s politics and made rational thought afflicted with discard, omission and rejection. As this utopian wave advanced, romanticism became even the policy of political system and organized many of the political enterprises in the basis of archaism and the return to the self. The main question is that what and how romantic currents appeared from the Constitutinal Movement to the 1330s? And the answer to this question is that the prevalence of romanticism and consequently mysticism, radical archaism, revolutionarism and paying attention to the emotions and immediate desires in Iran's political sphere, generated three main romantic currents: Racism, Identitism, and Mystic Socialism.