Omid A. Payrow Shabani (1962-2023) was an Iranian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Guelph
The University of Guelph (abbreviated U of G) is a comprehensive Public university, public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1964 after the amalgamation of Ontario Agricultural College (1874), the MacDonald I ...
.
Payrow Shabani was known for his expertise on
constitutional patriotism
Constitutional patriotism () is the idea that people should form a political attachment to the norms and values of a pluralistic liberal democratic constitution rather than to a national culture or cosmopolitan society. It is associated with ...
,
Iranian politics
The politics of Iran takes place in the framework of an Islamic theocracy which was formed following the overthrow of Iran's millennia-long monarchy by the 1979 Revolution. Iran's system of government (''nezam'') was described by Juan José Lin ...
and
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas ( , ; ; born 18 June 1929) is a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere.
Associated with the Frankfurt S ...
's philosophy.
He was awarded an
Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2002.
Books
* ''Democracy, Power, and Legitimacy: Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas'', Toronto:
University of Toronto Press
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The press originally printed only examination books and the university calendar. Its first s ...
, 2003
* ''Multiculturalism and the Law: A Critical Debate'',
University of Wales Press
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, March 2007.
* ''Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy'', eds. Omid Payrow Shabani and
Monique Deveaux
Monique Deveaux is a Canadian philosopher. She is a Full Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change at the University of Guelph. She is known for her research on poverty, cultural pluralism and global justice.
...
,
Oxford University Press
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, 2014
See also
*
Douglas Moggach
*
Kantian ethics
Kantian ethics refers to a Deontology, deontological ethical theory developed by German philosopher Immanuel Kant that is based on the notion that "I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a un ...
References
External links
Omid Payrow Shabani at University of GuelphOmid Payrow Shabani Google Scholar Citations
21st-century Iranian philosophers
Continental philosophers
Iranian political philosophers
Habermas scholars
Iranian philosophy academics
Academic staff of the University of Guelph
Living people
Carleton University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Canadian philosophers
21st-century Canadian philosophers
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