Dariush Shayegan wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.
The record lists Dariush Shayegan as Iranian writer, Indologist, philosopher and poet (1935–2018).
Dariush Shayegan was born at Tabriz in 1935. His recorded nationality is Pahlavi Iran. He studied at Faculty of Arts of Paris and École pratique des hautes études.
Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.
His academic posts were held at University of Tehran.
Philosophical influence is measured in the questions a thinker made unavoidable.
That the work was done from Pahlavi Iran matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Dariush Shayegan died in 2018, aged 83. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Tehran
