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Divya Dwivedi

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Divya Dwivedi
Alma materSt. Stephen's College, Delhi
EraContemporary philosophy
Regionphilosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Deconstruction (Post-Metaphysics)[1]
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Technology
Delhi
Main interests
Ontology, philosophy of literature, philosophy of politics, narratology, Anastasis, alternative traditions
Notable ideas
Hypophysics, Anastasis, Functional isolation, transitivity, polynomia, Comprehending law [2]


Divya Dwivedi is a philosopher based in the subcontinent [3]. She teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her writings and lectures deal with the resurrection of philosophy, and the specificity of literature and politics. As a narratologist she researches the specificities of narrative systems. One of the concerns in her writings has been the state of politics in India [4].

Biography

Divya Dwivedi completed her Bachelors degree from Lady Shri Ram College Delhi and her Masters from St. Stephen's College Delhi where she taught for brief period. She has a doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi on ontology of the literary [5]. She has co-authored the book Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-politics published by Bloomsbury Academic [6] with the philosopher Shaj Mohan. Jean-Luc Nancy wrote the foreword to Gandhi and Philosophy. Nancy described the originality of the contributions in terms of the relation revealed by her between truth and suffering, and a new path for philosophy beyond humanism, metaphysics, and hypophysics [7].

Works

Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-politics

Gandhi and Philosophy is a philosophical study of M. K. Gandhi's writings which leads to a path beyond the theological and nihilistic directions in philosophy. Bernard Stiegler has commented that this work shows the limits of nihilism in our eschatological contemporaneity and a new path. Dwivedi and Mohan call this path the anastasis of philosophy[8]. This book brings attention to the parallel tendency to metaphysics in philosophy which is hypophysics. Hypophysics is defined as "a conception of nature as value". The distance from nature that human beings and things come to have through the work of technology lessens their value, or brings them closer to evil. The path beyond metaphysics and hypophysics is created through the invention of a new conceptual order which allows philosophy to step outside the regime of sign, signifier, and text. The inventiveness and the constructivism of this work has been noted by Robert Bernasconi as "re-inventing language"[9]. The conceptual inventions have been noted to have come from mathematics and biology.

"The authors invent new formal concepts out of the sciences and mathematics. They engage closely and argumentatively with important thinkers including the biologist Jacques Monod, philosopher Foucault, mathematician Hermann Weyl, anthropologist Pierre Clastres and the burlesque artist Dita Von Teese."[10]

The constructionist tendency of this book places it between the dominant philosophical traditions and styles such as continental philosophy and analytical philosophy. In an interview conducted by Adèle Van Reeth for France Culture at the UNESCO head quarters Dwivedi stated that one must not recognize tradition as an adjective of philosophical practice[11]. The conclusion of Gandhi and Philosophy emphasizes the construction of a new dimension in philosophy.

"Anastasis is the obscure beginning which would gather the occidental and the oriental in order to make of them a chrysalis and set off the imagos born with their own spans and skies; these skies and the imagos set against them will refuse to trade in orientations; and these skies will be invisible to the departed souls of Hegel who sought mercury in the darkest nights."[12]

Other Works

Dwivedi, in this book and elsewhere, has taken a consistent stand against postcolonial theory and subaltern studies. In an interview given to MediaPart she said that postcolonial theory and Hindu nationalism are two versions of the same theory, and that they are both upper caste political projects[13]. Dwivedi noted that in the field of feminism postcolonial theory remains an upper caste theory which has been preventing lower caste feminists from opening their own currents in the context of the Me too movement[14]. Dwivedi wrote in the introduction to a special issue of the journal La Revue des Femmes-Philosophers edited by her that postcolonial theory is continuous with Hindu nationalism.

"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."[15]

Dwivedi Dwivedi has edited anthologies addressing political issues. The volume titled The Public Sphere: From Outside the West[16] tackled the radical transformation of the public sphere and cultural landscapes through new technologies and political forms such as populism.



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