Ramin Jahanbegloo

Ramin Jahanbegloo ( born 1956 in Tehran ) is an Iranian philosopher.

Biography

After studying philosophy, history and political science Jahanbegloo his doctorate at the Sorbonne University in Paris. In 1993 he taught at the Academy of Philosophy in Tehran. He also conducted research at the French Institute for Iranian Studies. In addition, Ramin Jahanbegloo was chairman of the Department of Contemporary Studies of the "Cultural Research Bureau " in Tehran. He is also assistant at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University.

Main theme of Jahanbegloos research is the constructive dialogue between different ethnic cultures. He wrote to more than twenty books in English, French or Persian, as well as numerous articles on modern Western philosophy. Jahanbegloo interviewed numerous scientists and intellectuals from all over the world, including Isaiah Berlin, George Steiner, and Noam Chomsky, even the Dalai Lama and Ashis Nandy. He invited to Iran in recent years, philosophers such as Jürgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, Antonio Negri, and Michael Ignatieff.

In May 2006 Jahanbegloo was arrested in Iran after his return from India. It is speculated that his arrest is linked to his statements about Ahmadinejad's statements on the Holocaust. Other sources indicate that he had been arrested on 27 April at the Tehran airport as he tried to emigrate to a meeting of the German Marshall Fund. It was during the four-month detention in the notorious Evin prison never a proper indictment. However Jahanbegloo was accused of over -government circles to have planned in collaboration with " foreign embassies " a "velvet revolution " in Iran.

Since 30 August, Ramin Jahanbegloo is now on the loose.

Articles and Interviews

  • Iranian modernity: ideas whose time has come. Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo, in: Leaves for German and International Politics 9/2006
  • Article by Ramin Jahanbegloo
  • Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity (Global Encounters ), Lexington Books, May 2004, ISBN 0739105299
  • Conversations with Isaiah Berlin: Recollections of an Historian of Ideas, Phoenix Press, ISBN 1842121642
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