Seyyed Masoud Hosseini

Seyyed Masoud Hosseini was born in 1987 in Tehran. He began his studies in computer engineering at Arak University, but after some time changed his academic path to philosophy. Hosseini completed his master’s and doctoral degrees in philosophy at the University of Tehran. His master’s thesis was on Fichte’s philosophy and his doctoral dissertation, entitled “Truth in Plato from the Perspective of Heidegger and Gadamer,” for which he received the Farabi Festival award.

After graduation, Hosseini has been engaged in teaching and translation in the fields of German Idealism and phenomenology. He has translated numerous works by philosophers such as Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Leibniz into Persian. Among his important translations are Hegel’s Idealism by Robert Pippin, Hegel by Frederick Beiser, Only a Promise of Happiness by Alexander Nehamas and Martin Heidegger by Michael Wheeler. He has also, together with Mohammad Mahdi Ardabili, translated Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit from German into Persian.

In addition to translation, Hosseini has also authored works and, in collaboration with Mohammad Mahdi Ardabili, wrote the third volume of the History of Western Philosophy published by Samt under the title German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel. His translations have received several awards, including the Student Book of the Year, the Book of the Season of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and a commendation in the Book of the Year.