Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: 19th Century German Philosophy (especially Hegel), Social and Political Philosophy
Website: philpeople.org/profiles/arash-abazari
Email: arash.abazari@bilkent.edu.tr
Phone: +90-312-290 2528
Office: A-331A
About
Arash Abazari specializes in 19th-century German philosophy, with a particular focus on Hegel. His first book, Hegel’s Ontology of Power: The Structure of Social Domination in Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2020), interprets the “logic of essence” in Hegel’s Science of Logic as a critical theory of capitalist society. The book was the subject of an Author Meets Critique panel in Hegel Bulletin (2022, 43(2)) and has been extensively reviewed in scholarly journals. In addition to Hegel, Abazari has published on Marx, Fichte, Kant, and the Frankfurt School. His current long-term research investigates the nature of political agency through the lens of the German philosophical tradition. As part of this project, he is currently working on a monograph on Georg Lukács’s theory of emancipatory politics. He is the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2022–24) and an ACLS/Mellon Fellowship (2015–16).
Sample publications
Abazari, A. (forthcoming). Emancipation from power into love: The transition from the logic of essence to the logic of the concept in Hegel’s Science of Logic. In B. Ferro & P. Giladi (Eds.), Hegel’s Philosophy of Emancipation. Routledge.
Abazari, A. (forthcoming). Is the dyad or the triad the building block of society? Fichte vs. Simmel. In G. Gottlieb & P. Giladi (Eds.), Fichte and critical theory. Routledge.
Abazari, A. (forthcoming). The limits and limitations of capital: The roots of Marx’s view in Hegel’s logic. In P. Pulgar Moya (Ed.), Metaphysics of capital: On methodological exposition in Hegel and Marx. Bloomsbury.
Abazari, A. (2026). Hegel’s dialectical critique of the nation-state. In E. Maraguat & R. Aragüés (Eds.), Contradiction as method and metaphysics: Reviving Hegel’s dialectic. Routledge.
Abazari, A. (2024). Politisches Handeln und Hoffnung auf den Sozialismus: Eine kantische Perspektive. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 72(4), 510–538.
Abazari, A. (2023). Marx and poverty. In G. Schweiger & C. Sedmak (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of philosophy and poverty (pp. 164–177). Routledge.
Abazari, A. (2022). Fichte’s conception of the body: The intertwining of sociality and embodiment. European Journal of Philosophy, 30(4), 1488–1503.
Abazari, A. (2022). Reading Philosophy of Right in light of the Logic: Hegel on the possibility of multiple modernities. In D. Moyar, K. Padgett Walsh, & S. Rand (Eds.), Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Critical perspectives on freedom and history. Routledge.
Abazari, A. (2022). Response to critics of Hegel’s Ontology of Power. Hegel Bulletin, 43(2), 320–343.
Abazari, A. (2021). Marx’s conception of dialectical contradiction in commodity. Hegel Bulletin, 42(2), 180-200.
Abazari, A. (2020). Hegel’s ontology of power: The structure of social domination in capitalism. Cambridge University Press.
Abazari, A. (2019). Hegel’s Schein as ideology of equality and freedom in capitalism. Hegel Bulletin, 40(2), 257–280.
Abazari, A. (2017). Opposition instead of recognition: The social significance of ‘determinations of reflection’ in Hegel’s Science of Logic. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 44(3), 253–277.