About the author

Acknowledgments

Prologue | A Parable

One | The Paradox

Two | Jammed in a Jungle and Nowhere to Go

Three | The Fox in the Hen House

‘Where is my vote?’

Four | It’s a Jungle Out There

Battle Formations

The al-Qaeda Factor

The Nuclear Nexus

The Iraq Factor

The Watchful Fox

All Fall Down

Five | Outfoxing the Wily Fox

A Paradigm Shift

The White Moderates

Back to the Geopolitics of the Region

Bearing Witness

The Changing Cosmopolis

Six | Paradox Redux

Brahmanic Wisdom

The Case of Thrasymachus

Brownshirts, Blackshirts, and Plainclothes

Social Networking and the Making of a Civil Rights Movement

Seven | The Fox in the Box

Whence the Green Movement

Home and Exile

Imagining a Liberated Homeland

Returning Home

Can Iranians Speak?

Eight | Retrieval of a Cosmopolitan Culture

Love Letters

Covering the Evidence

Qeshr-e Sonnati

The Retrieval of a Cosmopolitan Culture on the Site of the Social Body

La Vita Nuda: Anarchic versus Erotic Bodies

Limits of Governmentality: Multiple Consciousness and Parabolic Interactionism

The Defiant Corpus Eroticus

Conclusion | People and Their Parables

Notes

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Index