Arash Abazari

Arash Abazari is an Iranian philosopher and assistant professor of philosophy at Bilkent University. He was formerly a senior researcher at School of Analytic Philosophy in Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences. His research mainly resides in nineteenth century German philosophy, especially Hegel's philosophy, as well as social and political philosophy. Abazari taught at Sharif University of Technology's Philosophy of Science department until 2022. On January 21, 2022, it became public that Sharif University had refused to extend the contract with Abazari, apparently on political grounds. He was also the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship (2022-24) and a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2015-16).

Life and works Abazari initially studied medicine at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), and subsequently received his M.A. in philosophy from University of Essex in 2008 and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2017 with the dissertation title Hegel's Logic of Essence and the Ontology of Power in Capitalism.

Before joining Bilkent, Abazari was assistant professor of philosophy at Emory University.

The book was reviewed by Tony Smith, Jake McNulty, Allegra de Laurentiis, Nahum Brown, Bernardo Ferro, Mario Aguiriano Benéitez, Eduardo Zazo Jiménez, Markus Gante, Sjur Sandvik Strøm, Jamila Mascat, and Shahriar Khosravi. Some reviews were followed by a response from Abazari. The book also received short reviews from Brian O'Connor and Todd Hedrick.

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