Hamid Dabashi | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Iranian |
Alma mater | University of Tehran University of Pennsylvania |
Spouse | Golbarg Bashi (ex-wife)[1] |
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 |
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.[2]
He is the author of over twenty books.[3] 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.[4]