Life and Thought
Ahmad Rajabi, born in 1985, is a researcher and assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran. His main area of research is continental philosophy, particularly the thought of Martin Heidegger, and the book Transcendental Finitude is considered one of his prominent works.
Ahmad Rajabi, born in 1985, is a researcher and assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran. He studied law at the University of Tehran for his bachelor's degree and then continued his academic path in philosophy; he completed his master's and doctoral degrees in philosophy at the same university. His main area of research is continental philosophy, especially the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, fundamental ontology, and the problem of finitude.
Rajabi is best known for his book Transcendental Finitude: A Study of Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology. This book is an expansion and completion of his doctoral dissertation and deals with the exposition and analysis of Heidegger's conception of human existence, finitude, Dasein, and the human relation to Being. Transcendental Finitude won the Dr. Reza Davari Ardakani Award in 2017 and was also selected as a winner at the Islamic Republic of Iran's Book of the Year Awards in 2020.
In Rajabi's intellectual work, the problem of "finitude" holds a central place; that is, the question of how the human being is a limited, temporal entity entangled with its own possibilities, and what role this very limitation plays in understanding, truth, and Being. In this respect, his research aligns with contemporary readings of Heidegger and their relation to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and ontology.
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Writings and transcribed lectures1 title
"Transcendental Finitude: A Study of Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology"
