Critical theorist: Hamid Dabashi

Dec 28, 2012, 13:19 IST

Hamid Dabashi born 1951 in Ahvaz, is an Iranian-American Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.  

Born:  June 15, 1951 (age 61)Ahvaz
Era: 20th / 21st-century philosophy
Region: Critical Theory
School: Postcolonialism, critical theory
Main interests: Liberation theory, 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

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