Author: Kamal Soleimani, translator: Sirwan Barzanji, editor-in-chief: Omid Hoseyni, editor: Karzan Sanaei. The first book of "Kurdistan, Insights from Within" series, published by the Iran Academia University Press, under the "Kurdish Studies" Category. From the Editor-in-chief's Note: "Due to their historical and political situation, the Kurds need to translate and be translated more than other communities. Perhaps there are experiences, worldviews, and ideas in the context of Kurdistan society, or they have been produced through the mediation of Kurdish thinkers that remain unknown to the Kurds themselves. In this series, an attempt has been made to translate into Persian a collection of scientific approaches, ideas, analyses, and descriptions produced by Kurdish intellectuals, writers, and academics in the form of academic texts. We believe this will help us better understand the society of Kurdistan and the potential for Kurdish thinkers to be recognized both within and outside of Kurdistan. This series features a wide range of Kurdish writers and thinkers, but they all have chosen "Kurdistan" as their theoretical concern; each has analyzed different facets of Kurdish society." The free PDF version of this book is available on the Iran Academia Press website. The on-demand printed version is available for purchase.

A dialectical way of thinking has been marginalized in the western academy. Western scholars and philosophers tend to examine dialectical thinking as irrelevant, vague, and problematic. The roots of the negative stance to dialectic can be found in the “cult of empiricism” (Toulmin and Leary 1985) and the “enduring dominance of positivism” (Breen and Darlaston-Jones 2008) in psychology as well as in other disciplines. Additionally, it should be mentioned that schematic and formalist interpretations of dialectics doubtless contribute to the reproduction of its negative reception in western Academia.

The purpose of this book and its subsequent volumes is to enlighten the minds of Iranian youth and all those who speak Persian, including our Afghan and Tajik brothers and sisters.

The fifth volume of the Marxist Psychology Collection, edited and translated by Emmanuel Shokrian - Published by Iran Academia University Press