Arash Shokrisaravi

Graduate Student

Overview

Arash Shokrisaravi works on the history of metaphysics and theory. His research interests include:

  • ancient philosophy and classical reception.
  • the history and theories of allegory.
  • philosophical hermeneutics: Heidegger and Gadamer.
  • the Enlightenment and German idealism: Descartes, Kant, and Hegel.
  • contemporary French philosophy: Foucault, Derrida, and Fanon.
  • feminist theory and gender studies.
  • ancient Greek tragedies, epics, and history: Sophocles, Homer, and Herodotus.
  • Middle East fiction and cinema, and the history of Iranian fiction.
  • German fiction: Kafka, Handke.
  • Béla Tarr’s cinema.
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