Arash Abazari

Arash Abazari
Born	Iran
Occupation(s)	Philosopher, academic
Years active	–present
Known for	Work on 19th-century German philosophy, especially Hegel's philosophy; social and political philosophy
Notable work	Hegel's Ontology of Power (monograph)

Arash Abazari () is an Iranian philosopher serving as an assistant professor in the philosophy department at Bilkent University. Previously, he held a senior research position at the School of Analytic Philosophy within the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences. His scholarly interests center on 19th-century German philosophy, with particular emphasis on Hegel's philosophy, alongside topics in social philosophy and political philosophy. Until 2022, Abazari was a faculty member in the Philosophy of Science division at Sharif University of Technology. On January 21, 2022, Sharif University chose not to renew his contract, reportedly due to political considerations. He has been awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for the period 2022–24 and previously received an Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship from 2015 to 2016.

Life and works

Abazari began his academic journey studying medicine at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS). He subsequently obtained a Master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Essex in 2008, followed by a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2017. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Hegel's Logic of Essence and the Ontology of Power in Capitalism.

His monograph, Hegel's Ontology of Power, explores Hegel’s social and political thought through an analysis of Hegel's Logic. This work has been critically examined by several notable philosophers including Tony Smith, Jake McNulty, Allegra de Laurentiis, Nahum Brown, Bernardo Ferro, Mario Aguiriano Benéitez, Eduardo Zazo Jiménez, Markus Gante, Sjur Sandvik Strøm, Jamila Mascat, and Shahriar Khosravi. Abazari has also authored replies addressing some of these critiques. Additionally, shorter assessments were provided by Brian O'Connor and Todd Hedrick.

Articles

• Opposition Instead of Recognition: The Social Significance of the Determinations of Reflection in Hegel's Science of Logic, Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2017, vol. 44, issue 3.
• Hegel's Schein as Ideology of Equality and Freedom in Capitalism, Hegel Bulletin, 2017, vol. 40, issue 2.
• Marx's Conception of Dialectical Contradiction in Commodity, Hegel Bulletin, 2019, vol. 42, issue 2.
• Fichte's Concept of the Body: The Intertwining of Sociality and Embodiment, European Journal of Philosophy, 2022, vol. 30, issue 4.
• Politische Handlung und Hoffnung auf den Sozialismus: Eine Kantische Perspektive, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 2024, vol. 72, issue 4.

Book chapters

• Reading the Philosophy of Right in Light of the Logic: Hegel on the Possibility of Multiple Modernities, in Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Routledge, 2022.
• Marx and Poverty, in The Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty, Routledge, 2023.