Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi (Persian: حمید دباشی; born 1951) is an Iranian-American professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.
Hamid Dabashi | |
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| Born | June 15, 1951 |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran University of Pennsylvania |
| Spouse | Golbarg Bashi (ex-wife) |
| Era | 20th / 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Postcolonialism, critical theory |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Philip Rieff |
Main interests | Liberation theology, literary theory, aesthetics, cultural theory, sociology of culture |
Notable ideas | Trans-Aesthetics, Radical Hermeneutics, Anti-colonial Modernity, Will to Resist Power, Dialectics of National Traumas and National Art Forms, Phantom Liberties |
He is the author of over twenty books. Among them are Theology of Discontent, several books on Iranian cinema, Staging a Revolution, the edited volume Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema, and his one-volume analysis of Iranian history, Iran: A People Interrupted.
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