Adel Mashayekhi

Adel Mashayekhi was born in 1972 in Tehran and pursued his academic studies up to a Master's degree in Philosophy at Shahid Beheshti University. Within Iran's intellectual sphere, he is primarily known as a philosophy instructor, translator, and author, with his main area of activity being contemporary Continental philosophy.

Mashayekhi has played a significant role in introducing and translating works related to Gilles Deleuze. His Persian translations of Deleuze's "Nietzsche and Philosophy" and "Empiricism and Subjectivity" are among his important works, which have helped expand Persian speakers' understanding of the Deleuzian tradition, Deleuze's reading of Nietzsche and Hume, and philosophy's relationship with difference, force, experience, and subjectivity.

In his authored works, he has also engaged with philosophers such as Deleuze, Foucault, Spinoza, and Leibniz. Among his works are "Deleuze, Idea, Time," "Genealogy is Gray: Reflections on Foucault's Method," "Leibniz and the Political," and "The Spinoza-Deleuze Encounter." These works demonstrate his attention to the connection between metaphysics, politics, time, power, and the genealogical method.

In his writings and talks, Mashayekhi does not view philosophy as separate from politics and history. His focus on Deleuze and Foucault relates, on the one hand, to theoretical discussions about difference, the subject, force, and power, and on the other hand, to the possibility of a critical analysis of historical and social situations. His position in the Persian-speaking world is primarily defined as an interpreter and translator of Continental philosophy and a mediator of its difficult concepts for Iranian audiences.