Youssef Ishaghpour was born in 1940 in Tehran, died in Paris in 2021. He had lived in France since 1958.
After studying cinema at the Louis-Lumière school and at IDHEC, he studied philosophy, art history and sociology at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes and at the Sorbonne. Doctor of State, he was a professor in art history and cinema history at the IUT of Paris-Descartes University.
Initiated by Lucien Goldmann (whose posthumous work Lukacs and Heidegger he published in 1973) to the work of the young Lukacs, Youssef Ishaghpour was formed by reading L’Âme et les Formes, La Théorie du roman, Philosophie de Art and History and Class Consciousness and by the works of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno.
As part of this tradition, the writings of Youssef Ishaghpour are marked by a constellation of philosophical, historical, political and aesthetic thought.
Youssef Ishaghpour has devoted several books to the different modes of being of the image, and pursued a reflection on “the Iranian world” and on the cultural differences between East and West.
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