Arash AbazariAssistant Professor

PhD, Johns Hopkins University (2017)

M.A., University of Essex (2008)

19th Century German Philosophy (especially Hegel), Social and Political Philosophy

Books:

• Hegel’s Ontology of Power: The Structure of Social Domination in Capitalism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020

This book was subject to a written Author Meets Critics Panel in the Hegel-Bulletin, 43(2), 2022.

The book was reviewed in:  The Philosophical Quarterly, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Hegel-Studien, The Owl of Minerva, Antítesis-Revista iberoamericana de estudios hegelianos, Agora, Argumenta Philosophica, Philosophy in Review

Research Articles:

(1) "Opposition Instead of Recognition: The Social Significance of the Determinations of Reflection in Hegel’s Science of Logic," Philosophy and Social Criticism, 44(3), 253-277 (2018).

(2) "Hegel’s Schein as Ideology of Equality and Freedom in Capitalism," Hegel Bulletin, 40(2), 257-280 (2019)

(3) "Marx’s Conception of Dialectical Contradiction in Commodity," Hegel Bulletin, 42(2), 180-200 (2021).

(4) "Fichte’s Concept of the Body: The Intertwining of Sociality and Embodiment," European Journal of Philosophy, 30(4), 1488-1503 (2022).

(5) "Reading Philosophy of Right in Light of the Logic: Hegel on the Possibility of Multiple Modernities," in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Critical Perspectives on Freedom and History, ed. Dean Moyar, Kate Padgett Walsh, and Sebastian Rand, London: Routledge (2022).

(6) "Marx and Poverty," in The Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty, ed. Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak, London: Routledge (2023).

(7) "Politische Handlung und Hoffnung auf den Sozialismus: Eine Kantische Perspektive," Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (forthcoming).

(8) "The Limit and Limitations of Capital: The Roots of Marx’s View in Hegel’s Logic," in Metaphysics of Capital: On Methodological Exposition in Hegel and Marx, ed. Pablo Pulgar Moya, London: Bloomsbury (forthcoming).

(9) "Is the Dyad or the Triad the Building Block of Society? Fichte vs. Simmel," in Fichte and Critical Theory, ed. Gabriel Gottlieb and Paul Giladi, London: Routledge (forthcoming).

1. Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 2022-24
2. Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2015-16