Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 15, 1951 |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Spouse | Golbarg Bashi (ex-wife) |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran University of Pennsylvania |
| Doctoral advisor | Philip Rieff |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th / 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Postcolonialism, critical theory |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| 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.
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.