Jalal Al-e-Ahmad is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Jalal Al-e-Ahmad as writer, thinker, and social and political critic (1923-1969).
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad was born at Tehran in 1923. His recorded nationality is Iran. He studied at Harvard University and University of Tehran.
Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from Iran matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad died in 1969, aged 46. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
