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Philosophy Then

Existentialism Comes to Iran

Peter Adamson and Hanif Amin Beidokhti on Persian cross-cultural interpretations.

We live in a time when academics and students in Europe and North America are increasingly interested in ‘non-Western’ philosophical traditions, like those of Africa, China, India, and the Islamic world. The Western academy is thereby, however belatedly, returning a compliment, since European philosophical traditions have long been of interest in other cultures. In the Islamic world, philosophy first developed in part through the translation of ancient Greek works into Arabic. A millennium later, in the late nineteenth century, the last decades of the Ottoman Empire saw Turkish intellectuals engaging with figures such as Darwin, Durkheim, and Comte. An even more recent encounter with European philosophy took place in Iran.

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