Bijan Abdolkarimi
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| Native name | بیژن عبدالکریمی |
| Born | 1963 (age 54–55) Tehran, Iran |
| Era | 21st century Philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Continental |
| Doctoral advisor | Syed Abdul Sayeed |
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Main interests
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Critique of the Western Culture and Thought Existential phenomenology |
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Notable ideas
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Nietzscheian World, End of Theology |
Bijan Abdolkarimi (born 1963 in Tehran) (Persian: بیژن عبدالکریمی) is an Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator and editor. He is associate professor of philosophy at Islamic Azad University North Tehran Branch. His main interests are ontology, political philosophy and the critique of religious and intellectual traditions. He claims to challenge the dominant ideological discourse in Iran. He has participated in debates at Iranian universities and also in IRIB TV4 in which he has opposed the notion of Islamic humanities. He is also a scholar of Heidegger's thought and philosophy. Abdolkarimi received his PhD from Aligarh Muslim University in 2001 under the supervision of Syed Abdul Sayeed for his thesis on the critique of Kantian subjectivism.
The main characteristics of Abdolkarimi's thought may be summarized as follows:
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