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	Hazrat Zahra's Virtues and Passions	6 Feb 2012 13:55
	A collection questions and answers from Ayatollah Sadegh Rohani, a Marja-i Taqlid (lit. source of emulation), is published in Persian, English and Arabic.

	Schopenhauer; philosopher of culture and virtue	4 Feb 2012 11:47
	During the session held on Schopenhauer at the House of Literati, philosophy professor Hamid Talebzadeh said: as a philosopher Schopenhauer had realized the boredom and monotony of quotidian life and suggested piety as a means to freedom. Hence, he is truly entitled as the philosopher of culture and virtue.

	The Idea of Justice	1 Feb 2012 13:59
	A number of translators have rendered the Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen, Nobel prize winner in economic sciences, into Persian.

	Lorenzo-Dus' Television Discourse	30 Jan 2012 16:38
	The Persian translation of Nuria Lorenzo's Television Discourse: Analyzing Language in the Media has been published by IRIB Research Center. Mohammad Shaba has provided the translation.

	Vaswani's quotations about life	28 Jan 2012 15:49
	Life after Death by J.P. Vaswani has been rendered into Pashto. The translation is published in Afghanistan by the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization.

	Thematic approach to philosophy shows lack of analytical philosophy background	28 Jan 2012 11:17
	According to Dadbeh, no comprehensive and clear history of analytical philosophy has ever been written in Islamic countries. Rather than implying Iranian writers' negligence, it shows that our philosophers have taken thematic approach to philosophy instead of the analytical.

	Iranians to read Gyorgy Lukacs' political notes	26 Jan 2012 10:34
	Gyorgy Lukacs's political notes taken during the years 1919 to 1929 are converted into Persian by Omid Mehregan and will be released in a volume entitled as 'Bloom's Theses'.

	Works by western philosophers to be reviewed	24 Jan 2012 13:10
	Philosophy Book of the Month journal is arranging a series of sessions in assessment of the works by western philosophers like Rorty, Schopenhauer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

	Bourdieu, Hedayat meet in a book	22 Jan 2012 15:41
	"A Bourdieusian Analysis of the Blind Owl in Iran's Literary Arena" is the title of a new book on the analysis of Sadegh Hedayat's "The Blind Owl" based on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of social fields.

	"Corbin; an unlucky author in Iran"	21 Jan 2012 12:57
	A session was held in the House of Literary in which Kamran Fani said: "Before Corbin's death, a perfect translation of his works weren’t released. However the condition improved following the Islamic Revolution and more of his books were translated but still many of his noted works weren’t converted into Persian."

	Philosophy Book of the Month released	18 Jan 2012 15:46
	53rd (January) issue of Philosophy Book of the Month is concerned with philosophy in China.

	"Islamic-Iranian philosophers' thought can shape DNA of our civilization"	18 Jan 2012 13:42
	Seyyed Gholamreza Eslami, professor of architecture at the University of Tehran, said by applying Islamic-Iranian philosophers' thought in architecture, we can reconstruct the DNA of our civilization otherwise a catastrophe will take place.

	Philosophy an essential part of oriental life: Zekrgu	18 Jan 2012 12:49
	Amir-Hossein Zekrgu, art researcher and member of Iranian Academy of Arts regarded philosophy as a fundamental trend in the lives of eastern people and an essential part of oriental life and added: Life, death, marriage and many other issues of eastern life were tied with philosophy.

	The Law of Peoples converted to Persian	18 Jan 2012 11:04
	Jafar Mohseni has translated John Rawls's "The law of peoples" into Persian, in this volume Rawls tries to show how a global society made by liberal and honorable peoples is achieved.

	Shariati's thought copes with Nihilism: Abdolkarimi	15 Jan 2012 15:28
	Bijan Abdolkarimi, speaker of the 2nd 'Sermons of Love and Reason', termed Ali Shariati as one of the few Iranian thinkers whose futurist ideology can aid us cope with the Nietzschean Universe.

	Persians readers enter Poulet's "Proustian Space"	9 Jan 2012 14:16
	Georges Poulet's book on Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" entitled as "Proustian Space" is converted into Persian.

	'The Lacanian Real' converted into Persian	6 Jan 2012 12:13
	Slavoj Zizek's "The Lacanian Real: Television" is converted into Persian by Mahdi Salimi. According to Zizek, television vacates us of meaning and even disarms us of the ability to weep or laugh.

	Traditionalism: religion in the light of the perennial philosophy	31 Dec 2011 11:57
	According to Kourang Beheshti, "Traditionalism: religion in the light of the perennial philosophy" is the first book on the Perennial School that is available in Persian. It makes a survey of the main ideas of prioneers of Perennial Philosophy such as Rene Guenon, Kumaraswamy, and Frithjof Schuon.

	Latest Philosophy Book of the Month released	27 Dec 2011 10:51
	The 52nd 'Philosophy Book of the Month' is published featuring special profiles on the history of western philosophy and philosophy of the mind.

	Osho Love and the Koan of Relationships: a critique	26 Dec 2011 13:40
	Jomhuri Publishing House has recently released the book "Osho Love and The Koan of Relationships: a critique". The book makes a critical reading of love according to Osho.

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