Sadegh Kabeer

• Gender: Male
• Occupation: Student
• Location: London Tehran Dubai Mashad

About Me

Sadegh is a doctoral candidate in Middle Eastern politics and previously worked as a journalist based in the United Arab Emirates. The focus of Sadegh's research is contemporary Iranian politics.

Interests

• philosophy
• phenomenology
• political philosophy
• critical theory
• psychoanalysis
• heidegger
• nietzsche
• husserl
• levinasian ethics
• continental philosophy
• persian literature
• geopolitics
• middle eastern politics
• imperialism
• colonialism
• social and cultural theory
• economic theory
• nationalism
• ethnicity
• iran
• iranian politics
• iranian history
• iraq
• palestine
• lebanon
• us foreign policy
• zoroastrianism
• shiism
• islam and modernity
• iran's religious intellectuals e.g.
• Soroush
• Kadivar
• Eshkevari
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr et al
• modernism
• discourse analysis
• postmodernism
• islamic history
• capitalism
• sufism
• islamic mysticism
• evolutionary biology
• persian
• arabic
• german
• foucault
• post-marxism
• economic theory
• jurisprudence and philosophy of law
• political islam
• international relations
• Hannah Arendt
• Bruno Latour
• Michel Serres
• Isabelle Stengers
• Thomas Kuhn
• Henry Corbin
• Actor-Network Theory
• social constructionism
• Donna Haraway
• Judith Butler

Favorite Movies

• Anything directed by Kiarostami
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
• Tarkovsky
• Lynch
• Herzog
• Godard
• Resnais
• Panahi
• Kurosawa
• Orson Welles
• Scorsese
• or Hitchcock. The Ister
• Derrida
• Žižek !
• The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
• The Godfather
• The Godfather: Part II
• Pi
• Requiem For A Dream
• Apocalypse Now
• Full Metal Jacket
• Very Bad Things
• A Clockwork Orange
• Night of the Hunter
• The Cable Guy
• There's Something About Mary
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Usual Suspects
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
• Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
• Zoolander
• Star Wars
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Leon
• Fight Club
• Memento
• Irreversible
• Adaptation
• Paradise Now
• City of God
• Caché
• La Haine
• Annie Hall
• Twelve Monkeys
• Hitler ein Film aus Deutschland
• (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
• The Good the Bad and the Ugly
• Three Colours Trilogy
• Dekalog
• Eastern Promises
• This is England
• Sexy Beast
• Richard Pryor Live in Concert
• Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip
• Kingdom of Heaven
• Good Night and Good Luck
• The Pianist
• 40 Year Old Virgin
• Gladiator
• Syriana

Favorite Books

• Sein und Zeit
• Holzwege
• anything by Nima Yusheej
• Forough Farrokhzad Sadegh Hedayat
• above all
• Ahmad Shamlu
• Sohrab Sepehri
• Leviathan
• Street Politics
• Political Theology
• The Dialectic of Enlightenment
• Negative Dialectics
• Critque of Pure Reason
• Critique of Judgement
• The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
• On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time
• The Phenomenology of Perception
• The Visible and the Invisible
• Homo Sacer
• The Comming Community
• On the Genealogy of Morality
• Glas
• Phenomenology of Spirit
• Truth and Method
• all the books of
• Ervand Abrahamian
• and Hamid Dabashi
• Matter and Memory
• Cinema 2: The Time-Image
• The Essence of Manifestation
• Sphären 1: Blasen
• Sphären 2: Globen
• Sphären 3: Schäume
• Critique of Cynical Reason
• Difference and Repetition
• Symbolic Exchange and Death
• Being Singular Plural
• The Inoperative Community
• A Finite Thinking
• The Experience of Freedom
• Totality and Infinity
• Time and the Other
• Otherwise than Being Or Beyond Essence
• Being and Nothingness
• Illuminations
• Black Skin White Masks
• Star of Redemption
• I and Thou
• Masnavi
• Golestan
• Shahnameh
• Imagined Communities
• The Age of Extremes
• The Invention of Tradition
• Race Nation Class
• The Age of Capital
• The Age of Empire
• The Making of the English Working Class
• anything by Chomsky
• Beyond Chutzpah
• Killing Hope
• Late Victorian Holocausts
• The Great Transformation
• Modern Islamic Political Thought
• Culture and Imperialism
• Orientalism
• The Israel Lobby
• The Prison Notebooks
• Theology of Discontent
• Torture and Democracy
• The Muqaddimah
• Sources of Social Power
• Naguib Mahfouz
• Orhan Pamuk
• We Have Never Been Modern
• The Five Senses
• Michel Serres
• Provincializing Europe
• Dipesh Chakrabarty
• The Origin of Totalitarianism
• Hannah Arendt
• The History of Sexuality
• The Order of Things
• Discipline and Punish
• Michel Foucault