Arash Abizadeh

Arash Abizadeh (Persian: آرش ابی‌زاده) FRSC is an Iranian-Canadian philosopher, R.B. Angus Professor of Political Science, Chair of the Department of Political Science, and Associate Member of the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. He is known for his expertise on democratic theory, political and social power, migration and border control, and Thomas Hobbes.^[2][3][4][5] He is a recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship (1994).

Arash Abizadeh FRSC
Born	Shiraz, Iran[1]
Education
Education	University of Winnipeg (BA) University of Oxford (MPhil) Harvard University (PhD)
Thesis	Rhetoric, the Passions, and Difference in Discursive Democracy (2001)
Doctoral advisor	Seyla Benhabib
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	McGill University
Main interests	Political philosophy, early modern philosophy
Website	http://abizadeh.wixsite.com/arash

As a democratic theorist he is known for his advocacy of sortition, and has proposed the adoption of random selection to fill seats in the Senate of Canada.^[6]

Books

• Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 1108417299

See also

• Ethnic group
• Pistis
• Civic nationalism
• National myth
• Nationalism
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte
• The Ethics of Immigration
• Bahá'í administration
• Branding national myths and symbols