Bijan Abdolkarimi Explained

Region:	Western Philosophy
Era:	21st century Philosophy
Bijan Abdolkarimi
Native Name:	بیژن عبدالکریمی
Birth Place:	Tehran, Iran
Alma Mater:	Aligarh Muslim University (Ph.D.), University of Tehran (B.A. and M.A.)
School Tradition:	Continental
Main Interests:	Critique of the Western Culture and Thought Existential phenomenology
Notable Ideas:	Nietzscheian World, End of Theology
Thesis Title:	The Critique of Kantian Subjectivism (A Heideggerian Perspective)
Thesis Url:	http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/52171
Thesis Year:	2001
Doctoral Advisor:	Syed Abdul Sayeed
Occupation:	Philosopher, Writer, Poet, Translator

Bijan Abdolkarimi (Persian: بیژن عبدالکریمی; born 1963) is an Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator, and editor.^{[1] [2] [3]} His main interests are ontology, political philosophy and the critique of religious and intellectual traditions.^[4] He claims to challenge the dominant ideological discourse in Iran.^{[5] [6]} He has participated in debates at Iranian universities and also in IRIB TV4 in which he has opposed the notion of Islamic humanities.^{[7] [8] [9] [10]} He is also a scholar of Heidegger's thought and philosophy.^{[11] [12] [13]}

Career

Abdolkarimi is associate professor of philosophy at Islamic Azad University North Tehran Branch since 2001.^[14] On September 4, 2021, he was fired from Islamic Azad University for alleged “defending the Pahlavi monarchy”.^[15] However, the expulsion was suspended on the basis of an interim measure granted by the President of the university.^[16]

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.^[17]
• 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.^[18]
• 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 as the "metaphysicslessness of our time". But in the context of Abdolkarimi's thought, the term metaphysics is not merely in the Greek sense and refers to any historical theoretical tradition.^{[19] [20]}
• 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.^[21]

Bibliography

• Reflections on the Paradox of Directed Democracy, Eshraghieh Press, Tehran, 1989
• Shariati and Being Politicized, Resa Institute of Cultural Service, Tehran, 1995
• Thought and Politics, Tehran: Elmi o Farhangi, 1977.
• The Story of Me and Thou, Tehran: Critique of Culture, 2001
• Heidegger and Transcendence (A Commentary of Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason), Tehran: Critique of Culture, 2002
• Emancipation or Dominance? (A Critique of the System of Religious Education in Iran), with Mohammad Ali Mohammadi, Tehran: Critique of Culture, 2002
• Monism or Pluralism? (Mobile Thinking or Homeless Thought) (A Critique of Daryoush Shaygan's Modern Enchantedness), Tehran: Critique of Culture, 2004
• Nietzscheian World and Us, Elm Publication, Tehran, 2009
• Hegel or Marx? (A Critique of Iranian Intellectuals), Tehran: Critique of Culture, 2002.
• Heidegger in Iran, Iranian Institute of Philosophy, 2013

See also

• Intellectual Movements in Iran
• Iranian philosophy
• Religious intellectualism in Iran

External links

• • Abdolkarimi's Official Website
• Conceptual Approaches in Contemporary Iranian Religious Reformism
• Collection of Abdolkarimi's Lectures in Farsi

Notes and References

1. Web site: Abdolkarimi: Shariati's thought copes with Nihilism. 15 January 2012. Iran Book News Agency. 22 August 2012. 24 January 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120124013833/http://www.ibna.ir/vdch6qnzw23nizd.01t2.html. live.
2. Web site: Schopenhauer; philosopher of culture and virtue. Iran Book News Agency. 22 August 2012. 14 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191214090901/http://www.ibna.ir/prti3vazzt1arv2.ilct.html. live.
3. Web site: شوپنهاور فیلسوف فضیلت و فرهنگ است . . 22 August 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120209004230/http://www.farheekhtegan.ir/content/view/36038/44/ . 9 February 2012 . dmy .
4. Web site: ژورنالیسم و فلسفه در گفتگو با بیژن عبدالکریمی . . 22 August 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111010092246/http://hamshahrionline.ir/news-37040.aspx . 10 October 2011 . dmy .
5. Web site: عبدالکریمی از مواجهه توتالیتر با متن سخن گفت. 7 February 2012. Iran Book News Agency. 22 August 2012. 16 May 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120516193827/http://www.ibna.ir/vdcf11dytw6d00a.igiw.html. dead.
6. Arzhang. Amin. Criticism of Islamic humanities. Shargh Newspaper. 23 November 2011. 21 August 2012. 2 December 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20111202074525/http://www.magiran.com/npview.asp?ID=2402412. live.
7. Web site: عبدالكريمي: مطهری در درک عقلانیت مدرن از نوعی عقب ماندگی تاریخی رنج می برد / قائمي نيا: امتياز مطهري جهش از مباحث سنتي به مباحث جهان معاصر است. Daneshju News Agency. 23 August 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120614022113/http://www.snn.ir/news-13910221025.aspx. 14 June 2012. dead. dmy-all.
8. Web site: مناظره پارسانيا و عبدالكريمی درباره علوم انسانی برگزار می‌شود . https://archive.today/20130218080133/http://iqna.ir/fa/news_detail.php?ProdID=899293 . dead . 18 February 2013 . International Quran News Agency . 23 August 2012 .
9. Web site: عبدالكريمي: علوم انسانی اسلامی یک عبارت پارادوکسیکال و خود متناقض است. Daneshju News Agency. 23 August 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120603054818/http://snn.ir/news-13910309211.aspx. 3 June 2012. dead. dmy-all.
10. Web site: طرح اسلامی‌سازی علوم انسانی شرق‌شناسی وارونه است. 29 May 2012. Fars News Agency. 23 August 2012. 16 June 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240616124525/https://farsnews.ir/news/13910309001405/%D8%B7%D8%B1%D8%AD-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%82%E2%80%8C%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C-%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%87-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA. live.
11. Book: Jarvie, Ian Charles. Karl Popper: Life and time, and values in a world of facts. 2006. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 978-0-7546-5375-2. 152.
12. Web site: گفت وگوي "ايران" با دكتر بيژن عبدالكريمي: طنز تلخ هايدگر در ايران. Iran Newspaper. 23 August 2012. 2 November 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131102233831/http://www.magiran.com/npview.asp?ID=1509606. live.
13. Web site: Necesidad de confiar la celebración de los premios de Filosofía a las ONG . 22 August 2015 . 24 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924032423/http://www.ibna.ir/es/doc/shorttrans/217841/necesidad-de-confiar-la-celebraci%C3%B3n-los-premios-filosof%C3%ADa-a-las-ong . live .
14. Web site: استادان گروه فلسفه دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران شمال (Professors of Philosophy at Azad University) . . 22 August 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120106152545/http://ensani.iau-tnb.ac.ir/tabid/1272/Default.aspx . 6 January 2012 . dmy .
15. Web site: University In Iran Fires Philosophy Professor For 'Defending Monarchy' . 5 September 2021 . . 6 September 2021 . dmy . 5 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210905215001/https://iranintl.com/en/iran-in-brief/university-iran-fires-philosophy-professor-defending-monarchy . live .
16. News: The president of Azad University calls for re-examination of the case of Bijan Abdolklarimi . ISNA . 6 September 2021 . fa.
17. Web site: بيژن عبدالكريمي :"هايدگر در ايران" تا اتمام نگارش جلد دوم منتشر نمي‌شود. Farhangkhaneh Institution. 23 August 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20131105232345/http://www.farhangkhane.ir/news-stop/2078--l-r-.html. 5 November 2013. dead.
18. Web site: دکتر عبدالکریمی: دعوت بزرگ شریعتی، تجدید عهد با سنت تاریخی ماست. Academy of Iranian Studies in London. 23 August 2012. 25 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131025075511/http://iranianstudies.org/fa/%D8%AF%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%B1-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%B1%DA%AF-%D8%B4%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B9%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%8C-%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%AF/. live.
19. News: تفكر تئولوژيك. 23 August 2012. Shargh Newspaper. 16 June 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240616124515/https://www.magiran.com/article/1050844. live.
20. Interview With IRIB's Channel 4, September 2011
21. Web site: جهان نیچه‌ای بی‌معناست. 22 August 2008. Fars News Agency. 23 August 2012. 16 June 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240616124527/https://farsnews.ir/news/8706010280/%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%86%D9%8A%DA%86%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA. live.