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'{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}} {{Short description|Indian philosopher}}{{Infobox philosopher | region = | era = [[Contemporary philosophy]] | image = Divya Dwivedi.jpg | caption = Dwivedi speaking at the [[India International Centre]], New Delhi | name = Divya Dwivedi | alma_mater = [[Lady Shri Ram College]] (BA)<br /> [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]] (MA)<br /> [[Delhi University]] (M.Phil)<br /> [[IIT Delhi]] (PhD) | institutions = [[IIT Delhi|Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]]<br />[[Delhi University]]<br />[[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]] | school_tradition = [[Deconstruction]]<br /> [[Metaphysics of presence|Post-metaphysics]] | main_interests = [[Ontology]], [[metaphysics]], [[literature]], and [[Political philosophy|philosophy of politics]] | notable_works = ''[[Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-politics]]'' | influences = }} '''Divya Dwivedi''' is a [[philosopher]]<ref name="elle.in">{{Cite web|title=#ELLEVoices: Divya Dwivedi On How She Is #ImaginingTheWorldToBe|url=https://elle.in/article/voices-divya-dwivedi/|access-date=2021-01-14|website=Elle India|language=en-US}}</ref> and author based in [[India]].<ref name="The Resurrection of Philosophy">{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/books/gandhi-and-the-resurrection-of-philosophy|title=The Resurrection of Philosophy|website=[[The Wire (Indian web publication)|The Wire]]}}</ref> She is an associate professor at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]]. Her work focuses on [[ontology]], [[metaphysics]], [[literature]], and [[Political philosophy|philosophy of politics]].<ref name=":2" /> She is the co-author of ''[[Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-politics]]''. ==Early life and education == Dwivedi is originally from [[Allahabad]]. Her mother is Sunitha Dwivedi and her father, Rakesh Dwivedi, practices as a senior lawyer for the [[Supreme Court of India]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Chandran, Cynthia|title=New book rubbishes BJP aim to assimilate Gandhi|work=[[Deccan Chronicle]]|date=11 February 2019|url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/110219/new-book-rubbishes-bjp-aim-to-assimilate-gandhi.html|access-date=22 December 2019}}</ref> Dwivedi’s paternal grandfather, S. N. Dwivedi was a judge at the [[Supreme Court of India]], and her maternal grandfather [[Raj Mangal Pande]]<nowiki/> was a minister in the union government of India.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Two philosophers and a political theorist: An allegory of Indian public sphere |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/specials/two-philosophers-and-a-political-theorist-an-allegory-of-indian-public-sphere-1.8048901 |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=English.Mathrubhumi |language=en}}</ref> She received her [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from [[Lady Shri Ram College]], Delhi and her [[Master's degree]] from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St. Stephen's College]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://hss.iitd.ac.in/faculty/divya-dwivedi|title=Divya Dwivedi &#124; Humanities & Social Sciences|website=hss.iitd.ac.in}}</ref> She pursued her [[Master of Philosophy|M.Phil]] from [[University of Delhi]] and received her [[doctorate]] from [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi|Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]].<ref name=":0" /> == Career == Divya Dwivedi has taught as an assistant professor at [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]], and has been adjunct faculty in the English Department at [[Delhi University]].<ref name=":0" /> She is an associate professor at Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, [[IIT Delhi]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=The proletariat are all those who are denied the collective faculty of imagination; Divya Dwivedi tells ILNA|url=https://www.ilna.news/Section-world-8/907722-the-proletariat-are-all-those-who-are-denied-the-collective-faculty-of-imagination-divya-dwivedi-tells-ilna|access-date=2020-05-17|website=ILNA|language=en}}</ref> She teaches advanced topics in Literature and Philosophy, like the Functions of Satire, Art and Technology, Romanticism, Narratology etc. She was a [[visiting scholar]] at Centre for Fictionality Studies, [[Aarhus University]] in 2013 and 2014.<ref name=":0" /> Divya also contributed and published several research works, mainly in the field of the philosophy of literature, the philosophy of psychoanalysis, narratives, the philosophy of criticism, political philosophy, aesthetics, and critical studies on caste and race.<ref name=":0" /> Dwivedi's political writings have been critical of caste oppression,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Reghu|first=co-authored by Divya Dwivedi,Shaj Mohan,J|title=How upper castes invented a Hindu majority|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/religion/how-upper-castes-invented-hindu-majority|access-date=2021-03-15|website=The Caravan|language=en}}</ref> religious discrimination, racism, and Hindu nationalism.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nancy|first=Jean-Luc|title=La religieuse manipulation du pouvoir|url=https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/la-religieuse-manipulation-du-pouvoir-20210307_LYR4ECBNONBPLLDV4GZOZNZFYI/|access-date=2021-03-15|website=Libération|language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-02-02|title=En Inde, le mensuel " The Caravan " est harcelé par la police|language=fr|work=Le Monde.fr|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2021/02/02/en-inde-le-mensuel-the-caravan-est-harcele-par-la-police_6068474_3210.html|access-date=2021-03-15}}</ref> She is the editor and co-founder of the international multilingual journal ''[[Philosophy World Democracy]]'' with [[Zeynep Direk]], [[Achille Mbembe]], [[Jean-Luc Nancy]], [[Shaj Mohan]], and [[Mireille Delmas-Marty]].<ref name="elle.in"/> American journal for critical theory, ''Episteme'', published a special issue on the work of Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan in 2021.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Philosophy for Another Time; Towards a Collective Political Imagination|url=http://positionspolitics.org/episteme-4/|access-date=2021-03-11|website=positions politics|language=en-US}}</ref> She is a member of the ''Theory Committee'' of the [[International Comparative Literature Association]] along with [[Robert J. C. Young]], [[:de:Stefan Willer|Stefan Willer]] and others.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-07-06|title=Members ICLA Theory|url=https://iclatheory.org/members|website=www.iclatheory.org}}</ref> Dwivedi is a member of the International Network of Women Philosophers.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Interview with Divya Dwivedi – Humanities, Arts and Society|url=https://humanitiesartsandsociety.org/magazine/interview-with-divya-dwivedi/|access-date=2022-02-18|language=en}}</ref> Dwivedi was elected as a member of the executive council of International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Executive Council |url=https://www.thenarrativesociety.org/executive-council |access-date=2023-06-10 |website=The Narrative Society |language=en-US}}</ref> ==Philosophical works and views== Dwivedi's philosophical standpoint departs from the school of [[deconstruction]] and it was described as ''deconstructive materialism''.<ref name="ayyar1">{{Cite news|last=Ayyar|first=Raj|title=Bending the binary|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/bending-the-binary-gandhi-and-philosophy-5952328}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Deconstructive Materialism of Dwivedi and Mohan: A New Philosophy of Freedom|url=http://positionspolitics.org/the-deconstructive-materialism-of-dwivedi-and-mohan-a-new-philosophy-of-freedom/|access-date=2021-03-11|website=positions politics|language=en-US}}</ref> Her philosophical research projects developed in a "community of friendship with Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, Achille Mbembe, and Barbara Cassin".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mediapart |first=Les invités de |title=In support of Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan |url=https://blogs.mediapart.fr/les-invites-de-mediapart/blog/071122/support-divya-dwivedi-and-shaj-mohan |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=Mediapart |language=fr}}</ref> She publishes in the areas of [[ontology]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Two philosophers and a political theorist: An allegory of Indian public sphere |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/specials/two-philosophers-and-a-political-theorist-an-allegory-of-indian-public-sphere-1.8048901 |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=English.Mathrubhumi |language=en}}</ref> [[narratology]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Deconstructive Materialism of Dwivedi and Mohan: A New Philosophy of Freedom |url=https://positionspolitics.org/the-deconstructive-materialism-of-dwivedi-and-mohan-a-new-philosophy-of-freedom/ |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=positions politics |language=en-US}}</ref> [[metaphysics]], [[linguistics]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-18 |title=A French-style revolution alone can help India recover from its current caste stasis, says Prof Dwivedi - Asian News from UK |url=https://asianlite.com/2022/top-news/a-french-style-revolution-can-only-help-india-recover-from-its-current-caste-stasis-says-prof-dwivedi/ |access-date=2023-02-11 |language=en-US}}</ref> and [[deconstruction]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mediapart |first=Les invités de |title=In support of Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan |url=https://blogs.mediapart.fr/les-invites-de-mediapart/blog/071122/support-divya-dwivedi-and-shaj-mohan |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=Mediapart |language=fr}}</ref> Dwivedi’s work on [[Psychoanalysis]] is focused on the theory of drives in [[Sigmund Freud]]. Jean-Luc Nancy said that her work on Freud is "very enlightening" and she has "tied up a very important link between the texts of Freud", thereby showing the connections between Freud’s theory of drives, mass psychology and politics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=On Freud's Group Psychology: A Debate |url=https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/articles/on-freuds-group-psychology-a-debate-j-l-nancy-d-dwivedi-s-benvenuto/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=European Journal of Psychoanalysis |language=en}}</ref> === School of thought === Dwivedi said that philosophy is a disruptive practice following from the [[Socrates|Socratic]] model.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.governancenow.com/views/interview/in-search-of-gandhis-answer-to-the-question-what-a-human-life-should-be|title=In search of Gandhi's answer to the question: 'What a human life should be', Interview|first=Ashish|last=Mehta|website=Governance Now|date=2019-04-05}}</ref> Following from it there is "a necessary relation between philosophy and politics". She is opposed to treating philosophical traditions as adjectives of philosophical practice.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/les-chemins-de-la-philosophie/philosopher-en-inde|title=Une nuit de philosophie (1/4) : Philosopher en Inde|website=France Culture}}</ref> In an introduction to the December 2017 ''Women Philosphers' Journal'' guest-edited by Dwivedi, [[Barbara Cassin]] wrote Dwivedi "is a philosopher" whose refusal to make "the post-colonial the first and the last word undoubtedly allows us to clarify with greater precision what is happening to women, philosophers and intellectuals in India today".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cassin |first1=Barbara |title=Issue N° 4-5: Intellectuals, Philosophers, Women in India: Endangered Species |url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/resources/periodicals/women-philosophers-journal/issue-n-4-5/ |access-date=28 October 2022 |work=Women Philosophers’ Journal |date=December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722053854/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/resources/periodicals/women-philosophers-journal/issue-n-4-5/ |archive-date=22 July 2019}}</ref> In an interview with ''[[Mediapart]]'' Dwivedi said that postcolonial theory and Hindu nationalism are two versions of the same theory, and that they are both upper caste political projects.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/international/270518/hindu-nationalism-and-why-being-philosopher-india-can-get-you-killed|title=Hindu nationalism and why 'being a philosopher in India can get you killed'|last=Confavreux|first=Joseph|website=mediapart.fr|date=27 May 2018}}</ref> Dwivedi noted that in the field of [[feminism]] postcolonial theory remains an upper caste theoretical standpoint which has been preventing lower caste feminists from opening their own currents in the context of the [[Me too movement]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/amid-changing-nature-of-sex-as-an-activity-debates-over-raya-sarkars-list-represent-post-colonial-binaries-4194227.html|title=Amid changing nature of sex as an activity, debates over Raya Sarkar's list represent post-colonial binaries|website=Firstpost|date=5 November 2017}}</ref> Dwivedi wrote in her editorial introduction to the ''[[UNESCO]]'' journal ''La Revue des Femmes-Philosophes'' that postcolonial theory is continuous with Hindu nationalism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000265538|title=N° 4-5 / December 2017 ''Intellectuals, Philosophers, Women in India: Endangered Species''|website=www.unesco.org}}</ref>{{quote|text=Together, postcolonialism and subaltern theory have established the paradigm of research in humanities and social sciences—in India and abroad—over the past four decades. "Eurocentrism", "historicisation", and "postcolonialism" are also the operative terms through which the Hindu nationalist discourse conserves the caste order.}} === ''Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-politics'' === In 2018, Dwivedi co-authored ''[[Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-politics]]'' with the philosopher [[Shaj Mohan]]. The book examines different aspects of [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s thought from a new philosophical system based on the concept of ''anastasis''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Philosophy for Another Time; Towards a Collective Political Imagination|url=http://positionspolitics.org/episteme-4/|access-date=2021-03-12|website=positions politics|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gandhi-and-philosophy-9781474221719/|title=Gandhi and Philosophy|website=[[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury Academic]]}}</ref> [[Jean-Luc Nancy]] wrote the foreword to ''Gandhi and Philosophy'' and said that it gives a new orientation to philosophy which is neither metaphysics nor hypophysics.<ref name="auto6">{{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/933644/what-different-theories-of-philosophy-tell-us-about-gandhis-experiments-with-truth|title=Book Excerpt: What different theories of philosophy tell us about Gandhi's experiments with truth|website=[[Scroll.in]]}}</ref> The book proposes that in addition to the [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]] tendency in philosophy there is a 'hypophysical tendency'; hypophysics is defined as "a conception of nature as value". As per hypophysics the distance from [[nature]] that human beings and natural objects come to have through the effects of [[technology]] lessens their value, or brings them closer to [[evil]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/dispatches/article29575546.ece|title=Gandhi's Experiments with Hypophysics|website=[[Frontline magazine|Frontline]]}}</ref> Gandhi's concept of passive force or [[nonviolence]] is an implication of his hypophysical commitment to nature.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/second-thoughts/|title= A philosophical appraisal of Gandhi's outlook and ideas|first=Siddharth|last=Singh|website=[[Open (Indian magazine)|Open Magazine]]|date= 27 September 2019}}</ref> Dwivedi made a separation between ''metaphysics'' and ''hypophysics'' in her [[Royal Institute of Philosophy]] lecture, "While both seek to diagnose the 'west', each opens on to distinct futures: metaphysics to an "other thinking" than philosophy, hypophysics to the other of thinking itself".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wlv.ac.uk/about-us/our-schools-and-institutes/faculty-of-arts/school-of-humanities/undergraduate-courses/philosophy/rip-public-lectures/shaj-mohan-new-delhi-and-divya-dwivedi-iit-delhi/|title=Gandhi's Hypophysics (Dwivedi)|website=[[Royal Institute of Philosophy]]: Public Lectures}}</ref> ''Gandhi and Philosophy'' identifies racism with caste practices and ascribes a form of [[racism]] to Gandhi.<ref name="ayyar1" /> Dwivedi has said Gandhi "invented a new basis for racism, which is based on moral superiority".<ref name="auto5">{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/a-new-book-examines-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-the-father-of-the-nation-5910744/|title= A new book examines what we talk about when we talk about the Father of the Nation :Reading the Mahatma, Interview|first=Aakash|last=Joshi|website=[[The Indian Express]]|date= 2019-08-18}}</ref> In a review of the book in ''[[The Indian Express]]'', Aakash Joshi says of the authors, "Perhaps it is because they are not tied to Gandhi’s political project - secularism of a particular kind, freedom from colonial concepts, caste without violence - that they are capable of addressing the more uncomfortable aspects of his life and politics."<ref name="auto5" /> ''The Book Review'' said that the philosophical project of ''Gandhi and Philosophy'' is to create new evaluative categories, "the authors, in engaging with Gandhi's thought, create their categories, at once descriptive and evaluative" while pointing to the difficulty given by the rigour of a "seminal if difficult read for those with an appetite for philosophy".<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web|url=http://thebookreviewindia.org/philosophizing-gandhi/|title=Philosophizing Gandhi|last=Tankha|first=V|website=The Book Review}}</ref> [[Robert Bernasconi]] writes, "It is a challenging book to read. Familiar words that you think you understand the meaning of are used incongruously and only as you read through the book and come across occurrence after occurrence of these words do you get a new understanding of what that word might now mean. Similarly, they adopt words that seem to be new words, that are certainly new to me, and then slowly as one reads the book one comes to recognise what one can do with language."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Welcoming Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan's Gandhi and Philosophy|url=http://positionspolitics.org/welcoming-divya-dwivedi-and-shaj-mohans-gandhi-and-philosophy/|access-date=2021-03-12|website=positions politics|language=en-US}}</ref> According to J. Reghu in a review for ''The Wire'', the book "often reads like a thriller, but at times it demands careful attention, which is not surprising since it is an original work in philosophy already recognised by some of the important contemporary philosophers such as Nancy, Stiegler and Bernasconi."<ref name="auto7">{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/books/gandhi-and-philosophy-book-review|title=Gandhi as Chrysalis for a New Philosophy|website=[[The Wire (Indian web publication)|The Wire]]}}</ref> In a review for ''[[The Hindu]]'', Tridip Suhrud describes the book as "subversive but deeply affectionate" and writes that the authors, "through their doubt affirm Gandhi as a serious philosopher for our times and beyond."<ref name="auto8">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/gandhi-and-philosophy-on-theological-anti-politics-review-leap-of-faith/article29118506.ece|title='Gandhi and Philosophy – On Theological Anti-Politics' review: Leap of faith|last=Suhrud|first=Tridip|date=2019-08-17|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref> In a review for the ''[[The Indian Express]]'', Raj Ayyar stated, "Mohan and Dwivedi have done a masterful job of avoiding the binary fork — hagiography or vituperation — as much of Gandhi and hagiography comes from a need to spiritualise Gandhi".<ref name="ayyar1" /> == Scholarship and public commentary == Dwivedi is noted for writing against caste oppression<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dhanda |first=Meena |date=2020-04-01 |title=IV—Philosophical Foundations of Anti-Casteism |url=https://academic.oup.com/aristotelian/article/120/1/71/5825765 |journal=Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society |language=en |volume=120 |issue=1 |pages=71–96 |doi=10.1093/arisoc/aoaa006 |issn=0066-7374|hdl=2436/623193 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> and for publicly discussing academic research related to the construction of Hinduism in the early 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-08 |title=Los Angeles Review of Books |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/hindutva-and-the-academy-a-conversation-with-divya-dwivedi/ |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-02-02 |title=En Inde, le mensuel « The Caravan » est harcelé par la police |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2021/02/02/en-inde-le-mensuel-the-caravan-est-harcele-par-la-police_6068474_3210.html |access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref><ref name="Kritika 2019">{{Cite web |last=Sharma |first=Kritika |date=2019-10-07 |title=IIT-Delhi faculty calls Hindu religion a 20th century invention, triggers controversy |url=https://theprint.in/india/iit-delhi-faculty-hindu-religion-20th-century-invention-controversy/302088/ |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}</ref> She has opposed caste oppression in several interviews<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cargo Cult Democracy: Interview with the philosopher Divya Dwivedi on democracy, caste, and the future of India |url=https://www.ilna.ir/Section-world-8/1288369-cargo-cult-democracy-interview-with-the-philosopher-divya-dwivedi-on-democracy-caste-and-the-future-of-india |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=ILNA |language=en}}</ref> including to Le Monde<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-02-11 |title=Divya Dwivedi : « En Inde, les minorités religieuses sont persécutées pour cacher que la véritable majorité, ce sont les castes inférieures » |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/02/11/divya-dwivedi-en-inde-les-minorites-religieuses-sont-persecutees-pour-cacher-que-la-veritable-majorite-ce-sont-les-castes-inferieures_6113301_3210.html |access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref> and articles.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Compassionate Revolution of Saint Stan Swamy (1937 – 2021) |url=https://thewire.in/rights/the-compassionate-revolution-of-saint-stan-swamy |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=The Wire}}</ref> In 2020, she wrote in the journal [[Esprit (magazine)|ESPRIT]] that caste oppression is masked through the Hindu category.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ce que l'hindouisme recouvre {{!}} Revue Esprit |url=https://esprit.presse.fr/article/divya-dwivedi-et-shaj-mohan/ce-que-l-hindouisme-recouvre-42787 |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=Esprit Presse |language=fr}}</ref> In the 2021 January cover story of [[The Caravan|the Caravan magazine]] titled "The Hindu Hoax: How Upper Castes Invented a Hindu Majority" she argued that lower caste political leaders were opposed to the Hindu category when it was being proposed during the colonial rule. In the same article Dwivedi said that colonialism was mostly a liberating experience for the lower caste people, as it allowed them access to public spaces and public institutions such as schools and the army.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reghu |first=co-authored by Divya Dwivedi,Shaj Mohan,J |title=How upper castes invented a Hindu majority |url=https://caravanmagazine.in/religion/how-upper-castes-invented-hindu-majority |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=The Caravan |language=en}}</ref> After the publication of the Caravan article Dwivedi received threats against her as reported by news media including [[Truthout|TruthOut]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ballas |first=Anthony |date=2023-02-01 |title=As Universities Submit to Neoliberalism and Fascism, Workers Must Fight Back |url=https://truthout.org/articles/as-universities-submit-to-neoliberalism-and-fascism-workers-must-fight-back/ |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=Truthout |language=en-US}}</ref> and Le Monde.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-02-02 |title=En Inde, le mensuel « The Caravan » est harcelé par la police |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2021/02/02/en-inde-le-mensuel-the-caravan-est-harcele-par-la-police_6068474_3210.html |access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref> Jean-Luc Nancy wrote in the Liberation about Dwivedi’s writings on caste oppression and expressed concern about the threats to her. Dwivedi has also supported individuals<ref>{{Cite web |title=Divya Dwivedi pledges support for research scholar protesting against university |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/mg-university-strike-1.6159026 |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=English.Mathrubhumi |language=en}}</ref> suffering under institutional caste oppression.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Divya Dwivedi extends support to Anupama Chandran |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/keralachildadoptioncase-1.6192836 |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=English.Mathrubhumi |language=en}}</ref> [[Mathrubhumi]] and other media reported that Dwivedi "expressed her concerns over the ongoing protest against alleged caste discrimination at [[K. R. Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts|KR Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts]] (KRNNIVSA) in Kottayam".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Divya Dwivedi expresses concerns over Kerala film institute row |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/amp/news/kerala/divya-dwivedi-expresses-concerns-over-kerala-film-institute-row-1.8234906 |access-date=2023-02-09 |website=English.Mathrubhumi}}</ref> Dwivedi has spoken about the [[Caste system in India|caste system]] in Indian society and governance, and her belief that destruction of the caste order is the "only worthy pursuit of Indian politics." Dwivedi has said "it will be a social revolution rather than another transfer of power that alone will destroy the caste order."<ref name="AsianLite"/> In an interview reported by the interviewer Abhish K Bose to have later become "viral and controversial",<ref name="Bose 2023">{{Cite web |date=2023-04-05 |title=Class, Caste And Communism: An Interview With J. Reghu{{!}} Countercurrents |url=https://countercurrents.org/2023/04/class-caste-and-communism-an-interview-with-j-reghu/ |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=countercurrents.org |language=en-US}}</ref> interview Dwivedi said "Hinduism was invented in the early 20th century to avoid the lower caste majority, who had been oppressed for millennia, from rising up to claim their rightful power of self-determination under modern constitutional democratic institutional conditions."<ref name="AsianLite">{{cite news |title=A French-style revolution alone can help India recover from its current caste stasis, says Prof Dwivedi |url=https://asianlite.com/2022/top-news/a-french-style-revolution-can-only-help-india-recover-from-its-current-caste-stasis-says-prof-dwivedi/ |access-date=22 October 2022 |work=Asian Lite International |date=18 October 2022}}</ref> According to Bose, "Her point was that as long as upper castes controlled this religion, which is almost a state religion, the lower castes as its members could never start a true liberation movement."<ref name="Bose 2023"/> On September 13, 2023, ''[[Mathrubhumi]]'' reported comments made by Dwivedi in a [[France24]] interview were "misrepresented by a group of people in cyberspace who are accusing Divya of making disparaging comments against Hinduism and India," and death threats had been made against her.<ref name="Mathrubhumi 2023"/> A variety of writers, including Kerala [[Sahitya Akademi]] President K Satchidanandan, [[Savithri Rajeevan]], Deepthi Krishna, Ram Mohan, and Ajay Shekhar expressed solidarity with Dwivedi.<ref name="Mathrubhumi 2023">{{cite news |title=Death threats over remarks on Hinduism: Kerala writers stand in solidarity with Divya Dwivedi |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/writers-stand-in-solidarity-with-divya-dwivedi-1.8900370 |access-date=20 September 2023 |work=[[Mathrubhumi|English.Mathrubhumi]] |date=13 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref> == Bibliography == === Books === * ''[[Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-politics]],'' Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. ==== Edited ==== * ''The Public Sphere: From Outside the West,'' Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. * ''Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives,'' Ohio State University Press, 2018. *[https://books.google.com/books?id=6DZYEAAAQBAJ&dq=info:Am34sgRL3zEJ:scholar.google.com/&pg=PP1 Virality of Evil Philosophy in the Time of a Pandemic], [[Rowman & Littlefield]] , 2022. === Articles === * [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/887363 “ The Evasive Racism of Caste—and the Homological Power of the "Aryan" Doctrine “], Critical Philosophy of Race, Penn State University Press, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2023, pp. 209-245. * “The Hypophysics of Philosophical Nationalism: [[Jacques Derrida|Derrida]], [[Johann Gottlieb Fichte|Fichte]]”, Eco-ethica Online First: May 11, 2023 DOI: 10.5840/ecoethica202342652 * "A Flight Indestinate", in ''Coronavirus, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy'', Editors Fernando Castrillón et al., Oxford: Routledge, 2021. * "[https://www.philosophy-world-democracy.org/in-whose-wild-heart-immortality-sleeps-homeless Jean-Luc Nancy: in whose wild heart immortality sleeps homeless]", ''Philosophy World Democracy''. * "[[doi:10.1080/1369801X.2020.1816856|May 1968 in the Memories of Imagination]]", ''Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies'', Vol 22, 2020. * "[https://caravanmagazine.in/religion/how-upper-castes-invented-hindu-majority The Hindu Hoax  How upper castes invented a Hindu majority]" [[The Caravan|Caravan Magazine]] cover story (with S. Mohan and R. Janardhanan) * "[https://www.franceculture.fr/societe/divya-dwivedi-nous-ne-saurons-jamais-pourquoi-et-pour-quoi-le-monde-existe-et-tourne Nous ne saurons jamais pourquoi et pour quoi le monde existe et tourne]" in [[France Culture]]. * "[https://esprit.presse.fr/article/divya-dwivedi-et-shaj-mohan/ce-que-l-hindouisme-recouvre-42787 Ce que l'hindouisme recouvre]", (with S, Mohan), [[Esprit (magazine)|Espirit]], June 2020. * "[https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/a-mystery-of-mysteries/ A Mystery of Mysteries!–]" ''European Journal of Psychoanalysis'', 2021. * "[https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/a-debate-j-l-nancy-d-dwivedi-s-benvenuto/ On Freud’s Group Psychology. A Debate (J.-L. Nancy, D. Dwivedi, S. Benvenuto)]", ''European Journal of Psychoanalysis'', 2021. * "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.54.1.0007 The transitivity of the We in Narrative and Political Discourse]", ''[[Style (journal)|Style]]'', Vol 54, No. 1, 2020. * "[https://www.philosophy-world-democracy.org/nancys-wager Nancy's Wager]", Philosophy World Democracy, 2021. * ''“''[[doi:10.5840/ecoethica20218241|Homologies in Freud and Derrida: Civilization and the Death Drive]]''”, Eco-Ethica,'' Vol 9, 2020. * "[https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/the-endogenous-ends-of-education-for-aaron-swartz/ The Endogenous Ends of Education: For Aaron Swartz]", (with S, Mohan) ''European Journal of Psychoanalysis'', 2021. * "Modal of Lost Responsibilities", in [https://books.google.com/books?id=6DZYEAAAQBAJ&dq=info:Am34sgRL3zEJ:scholar.google.com/&pg=PP1 Virality of Evil Philosophy in the Time of a Pandemic], [[Rowman & Littlefield]] , 2022. === Interviews === * [https://elle.in/article/voices-divya-dwivedi/ #ELLEVoices: Divya Dwivedi On How She Is #ImaginingTheWorldToBe], [[Elle (magazine)|Elle Magazine]]. * [https://asianlite.com/2022/top-news/a-french-style-revolution-can-only-help-india-recover-from-its-current-caste-stasis-says-prof-dwivedi/ A French-style revolution alone can help India recover from its current caste stasis, says Prof Dwivedi] * [https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/l-invite-e-des-matins-d-ete/l-invite-des-matins-du-vendredi-14-juillet-2023-9670257 Modi en France : l’Inde, partenaire incontournable], [[France Culture]], 14 juillet 2023 * [https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/02/11/divya-dwivedi-en-inde-les-minorites-religieuses-sont-persecutees-pour-cacher-que-la-veritable-majorite-ce-sont-les-castes-inferieures_6113301_3210.html Divya Dwivedi : « En Inde, les minorités religieuses sont persécutées pour cacher que la véritable majorité, ce sont les castes inférieures »], [[Le Monde]] * [https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/les-chemins-de-la-philosophie/philosopher-en-inde Une nuit de philosophie (1/4) : Philosopher en Inde] Interview with ''[[Les Chemins de la philosophie]]'' at the [[UNESCO]]Headquarters Paris, available as Podcast. * "[https://www.ilna.news/Section-world-8/907722-the-proletariat-are-all-those-who-are-denied-the-collective-faculty-of-imagination-divya-dwivedi-tells-ilna The proletariat are all those who are denied the collective faculty of imagination]", [[Iranian Labour News Agency|ILNA]] * [https://humanitiesartsandsociety.org/magazine/interview-with-divya-dwivedi/ Interview with Divya Dwivedi], [[UNESCO|Unesco]] == See also == {{div col}} * [[Women in philosophy]] * [[List of women philosophers]] * [[Nihilism]] * [[Gandhism]] * [[Hannah Arendt]] * [[Simone Weil]] * [[Narratology]] * [[Eschatology]] {{div col end}} == References == {{reflist}} == Further reading == * [[Jean-Luc Nancy]], "[https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/la-religieuse-manipulation-du-pouvoir-20210307_LYR4ECBNONBPLLDV4GZOZNZFYI/ La religieuse manipulation du pouvoir]", in [[Libération]] * [[Robert Bernasconi|R. Bernasconi]], "[http://positionspolitics.org/welcoming-divya-dwivedi-and-shaj-mohans-gandhi-and-philosophy/ Welcoming Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan’s Gandhi and Philosophy]", ''episteme'', issue 4: philosophy for another time; towards a collective political imagination. * Rex Butler, "[https://www.philosophy-world-democracy.org/other-beginning/an-other-beginning-a-new-thinking-of-the-end An Other Beginning: A New Thinking of the End]", ''Philosophy World Democracy''. *R. Janardhanan, "[http://positionspolitics.org/the-deconstructive-materialism-of-dwivedi-and-mohan-a-new-philosophy-of-freedom/ The Deconstructive Materialism of Dwivedi and Mohan:A New Philosophy of Freedom]", ''Positions Politics'', 2021. *D. J. Smith "[http://positionspolitics.org/gandhi-and-philosophy-hypophysics-and-the-comparison-between-caste-and-race/ Gandhi and Philosophy:Hypophysics and the Comparison between Caste and Race]", ''episteme'', issue 4. *[[Marguerite La Caze]], "[http://positionspolitics.org/cocktails-more-lethal-than-molotovs/ Cocktails more lethal than Molotovs:Freedom, Indestinacy, and Responsibility in Gandhi and Philosophy]", ''episteme'', issue 4. * R. Janardhanan, "[https://www.philosophy-world-democracy.org/other-beginning/deconstructive-materialism Deconstructive Materialism: Einsteinian Revolution in Philosophy]", ‘’Philosophy World Democracy’’ == External links == *[https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/author/divya--dwivedi/ Divya Dwivedi] Author page at [[Bloomsbury Publishing]] *[http://positionspolitics.org/episteme-4/ episteme issue 4: philosophy for another time; towards a collective political imagination] Special issue on the philosophical work of Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dwivedi, Divya}} [[Category:Deconstruction]] [[Category:Narratology]] [[Category:Heidegger scholars]] [[Category:Ontologists]] [[Category:Philosophers of nihilism]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Indian women philosophers]] [[Category:Lady Shri Ram College alumni]] [[Category:Academic staff of IIT Delhi]] [[Category:St. Stephen's College, Delhi alumni]] [[Category:IIT Delhi alumni]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:21st-century Indian philosophers]]'