Divya Dwivedi is an Indian philosopher, author, and academician at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. |
She worked as an assistant professor at Saint Stephen’s College, Delhi University from 2003 to 2004. |
In January 2011, she became an adjunct faculty at Delhi University's Department of English until April 2012, then joined IIT Delhi as an associate professor. |
In 2013-14, she was a visiting fellow at Aarhus University’s Centre for Fictionality Studies. |
Divya Dwivedi co-edited "Public Sphere from outside the West" in 2015 and "Narratology and Ideology" in 2018. |
She became a member of the committee on Literary Theory at the ICLA in June 2017. |
In 2019, she co-authored "Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics." |
In 2022, she became an executive council member of the ISSN and edited "Virality of Evil". She was also a fellow at Archives Husserl, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. |
She is the editor and co-founder of the international journal ‘Philosophy World Democracy’. |
Divya Dwivedi is a modern philosopher known for her different ideas in ontology, narratology, metaphysics, linguistics, and deconstruction. |
Influenced by philosophers like Jean-Luc Nancy and Bernard Stiegler, she believes philosophy should challenge the status quo and be tied to politics. |
She studies psychoanalysis founded by Sigmund Freud, exploring its connections to psychology, mass thinking, and politics. |
According to Dwivedi, postcolonial theory and Hindu nationalism are similar in supporting the upper caste in India. |
She advocates against caste oppression and discusses changes made to Hinduism to suppress lower-caste individuals. |