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Bijan Abdolkarimi

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Region
  
Western Philosophy


Role
  
philosopher

Name
  
Bijan Abdolkarimi

Bijan Abdolkarimi

Born
  
1963
Tehran, Iran

Main interests
  
Critique of the Western Culture and ThoughtExistential Phenomenology

Notable ideas
  
Nietzscheian World, End of Theology

Areas of interest
  
Postmodernism, Existential phenomenology

Influenced by
  
Martin Heidegger, Ali Shariati, Ahmad Fardid, Reza Davari Ardakani

Similar People
  
Ahmad Fardid, Reza Davari Ardakani, Mostafa Malekian, Abdolkarim Soroush, Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari

Schools of thought
  
Continental philosophy

Philosophical era
  
Contemporary philosophy

Education
  
Aligarh Muslim University

University professor bijan abdolkarimi reject islamic humanitas ordered to be teached by khamenei


Bijan Abdolkarimi (born 1963 in Tehran) (Persian: بیژن عبدالکریمی ) is an Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator and editor. He is associate professor of philosophy at Islamic Azad University (North-Tehran branch). His main interests are ontology, political philosophy and the critique of religious and intellectual traditions. He claims to challenge the dominant ideological discourse in Iran. He has participated in debates at Iranian universities and also in IRIB TV4 in which he has opposed the notion of Islamic humanities. He is also a scholar of Heidegger's thought and philosophy. Abdolkarimi received his PhD from Aligarh Muslim University in 2001 under the supervision of Syed Abdul Sayeed for his Thesis on the critique of Kantian subjectivism.

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Part of debate of Bijan Abdolkarimi and Zarshenas about liberty


Views

The main characteristics of Abdolkarimi's thought may be summarized as follows:

  • Abdolkarimi seeks to present a spiritual, meditative interpretation of Heidegger's thought.
  • The relation between the West and East is his main issue in his philosophical thinking. He strongly criticizes any ideological, theological understanding of the West and East. He emphasizes a historical, phenomenological understanding of these two traditions.
  • He has worked on the theory of the end of theology and its critical connotations. Following Gianni Vattimo, he believes that the main philosophical characteristic of our time is the destroyed ontology. Abdolkarimi interprets Vattimo's idea in this way that "our time has become metaphysic-less". But in the context of Abdolkarimi's thought, the term metaphysics is not merely in the Greek sense but includes every historical theoretical tradition.
  • Abdolkarimi believes that the human being's future thought is a kind of nonsecular-nontheological thinking, namely a way of thinking that is in disagreement to the secular, materialistic interpretation of the world, but at the same time does not settle in any historic, theological systems.

    • References

    Bijan Abdolkarimi Wikipedia
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