TEHRAN (IBNA) - ‘Thomas Paine’ (2007), a book by Mark Philip on the life and career of the ‎English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and ‎revolutionary has been translated into Persian and published.
The book has been rendered into Persian by veteran Iranian translator, author and editor Mohammad Gha’ed. Nashr-e No Publishing in cooperation with Asim Publishing has released ‘Thomas Paine’ in 168 pages.
Paine’s writings in the long term inspired philosophic and working-class radicals in Britain and the United States. Liberals, libertarians, left-libertarians, feminists, democratic socialists, social democrats, anarchists, free thinkers and progressives often claim him as an intellectual ancestor.
He authored ‘Common Sense’ (1776) and ‘The American Crisis’ (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of transnational human rights.
‘Thomas Paine’ by Mark Philip, a Fellow and Tutor in politics at Oriel College, Oxford is from the Very Interesting People series printed by ‎ Oxford University Press.
Definitive, concise, and very interesting...From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain’s most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.