
Contemporary Philosophy and TranslationIranian
Mehdi Parsa is an Iranian translator and researcher of contemporary philosophy, working primarily in the areas of the thought of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and post-structuralism. He has translated important works by Derrida and Deleuze into Persian and is the author of the book Derrida and Philosophy.
Mehdi Parsa was born in 1979. He is an Iranian translator and philosopher whose research and translations have mainly focused on contemporary French philosophy, particularly the thought of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze.
Parsa has translated the first part of Derrida's Of Grammatology into Persian and has also translated Deleuze's Kant's Critical Philosophy. His other translations include works on semiotics, post-structuralism, and political philosophy. He has also authored the book Derrida and Philosophy, in which he addresses the place of Derrida's thought and his relationship with philosophers such as Plato, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Levinas.
Parsa's activities have been influential in introducing and developing post-structuralist thought and deconstruction within the Persian-speaking philosophical sphere, and he is considered one of the active translators in this field.