Dr. Saitya Brata Das
Assistant Professor,
Centre for English Studies
School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi-110067, India
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Email: satyadx@yahoo.com        sbdas@mail.jnu.ac.in
Web addres: http://jawaharlalanehrunewdelhiindia.academia.edu/SaityaBrataDas

Areas of Interest

* German Idealism (Schelling and Hegel)
* 20th Century French Philosophy (Emmanuel Lévinas, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe)
* 20th Century German Philosophy (Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch)
* Medieval Theology ( St. Augustine, Meister Eckhart, Jacob Böhme)
* Questions of the theologico-political (Jacob Taubes, Carl Schmitt, Erik Peterson)

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru University
M.Phil and Ph.D
Semiotics and Philosophy of Structure		 2000-2004
Jawaharlal Nehru University
M.A in English 		1998-2000
Gauhati University
B.A in English 		1994-1997

  
Employments

Assistant Professor
Centre for English Studies
School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University 		2012 November Onwards
Fellow
Indian Institute of Advanced Studies,
Shimla, India 		2009-2011
Post Doc Fellow
UFR Philosophie
Universite de Marc Bloch
Strasbourg, France		 2006-2007
Assistant Professor
Sri Venkateswara College
(Delhi University)		 2001 September till November 2012

Research Guidance

Ph. D Supervision

* Aatreyee Ghosh, History, Memory and the Immemorial in Amitabh Ghosh's Fiction (work in progress), co-guiding with Prof. G.J.V. Prasad

* Soumana Biswas , Workings of Postmemory: Reading Recent Partition Fiction (work in progress), co-guiding with Prof. G.J.V. Prasad

* Arunima Sen, " A Citizen of Law: Sovereignty and its Representations in Colonial Bengal During the 19th Century", (work in progress), co-guiding with Prof. G. J.V. Prasad

* Simon Tabet, La traversée de la postmodernity, de l'Amérique à l'Europe: Histoire intellectuelle et culturelle de la réception de l'idée postmoderne en France, (work in progress), co-guiding as part of Cultural Studies Literary Interzones Erasmas Musdas Joint Doctorate Programme.

Publications

Books :

Articles and Essays :

  • On Beatitudes – A Critique of Historical Reason in Kritike (http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_12/das_june2013.pdf)

  • Tears are not Yet Wiped Away from All Faces to be published in The Weight of Violence: Religion, Language , Politics ( Delhi: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

  • The Irreducible Remainder : Towards the Idea of a Finite Politics in Journal for Cultural Research ( London: Routledge, October 2011), vol. 16, issue 4, pp.418-442

  • The Destinal Question of Language in Kriterion: Revista de Filosofia , vol 52, issue 123, June 2011, pp.121-138.

  • Of Pain: The Gift of Language and the Promise of Time in Journal for Comparative and Continental Philosophy( Equinox Publications: London, May 2011), Vol. 3, issue 1.

  • F. W. Schelling in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (www.iet.utm.edu/schellin/), 2011

  • The Lightning Flash in Philosophical Forum (Wiley Blackwell, Fall 2010), vol 41, issue 3, pp. 315-345.

  • (Dis)Figures of Death: Taking the Side of Derrida, Taking the Side of Death in Derrida Today(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, May 2010)vol 3:1, pp. 1-20.

  • The Open in Kritike (http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_6/das_december2009.pdf

  • Wholly Otherwise in Journal for Cultural Research ( London : Routledge, Taylor and Francis , 2008),12:2,pp.167-180)

  • To Philosophize is to learn how to die? in Kritike, Vol2,no1, http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_3/das_june2008.pdf ( June 2008), pp. 31-49

  • The Melancholic Name in Journal for Cultural Research (London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2007), 11:2, pp. 111-123.

  • The Abyss of Human Freedom in Journal for Indian Council of Philosophical Research (Oct 2010), vol.XXVII,No.4, 91-104

  • Derrida's Tympan: Mourning, Philosophy, Literature in Research and Criticism, Benaras Hindu University Journal (Pencraft, 2010), vol 1, pp. 23-34.)

  • Of Force, Of Rhythm, Of Melody, in Language Forum, vol.30, No.2, July-Dec 2004 , New Delhi, pp. 11-25

  • What is Assamese Community: Hospitality, Identity , Difference in Contemporary Concerns , ed. By Dilip Gogoi ( Guwahati: Anwesha, 2008), pp. 43-48

  • The Experience of the Limit: Nietzsche's Abyssal Experience of the Eternal Return Franson Manjali, ed. Nietzsche: Philologist, philosopher and Cultural Critic (New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 2006) , pp. 71-81

  • Tragic Responsibility and the Limit of Knowledge in Franson Manjali, ed. Post-structuralism and Critical Theory: Beyond the Linguistic Turn (New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 2006), pp. 226-238.

Seminar Presentations:    

  • Organizing a conference on "Politics and/of Religion" at Jawaharlal Nehru University, 31st October – 1st November , 2013.

  • Organized an international conference on "Religion, Violence and Language", held at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 9th to 11th April 2012. My presentation is entitled Franz Rosenzweig: The Messianic Critique of Violence.

  • Heidegger: Language, Death and Time in a workshop, "After Heidegger: Language, Negativity and Time", organized at Centre for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University on 14th January 2012

  • On Beatitudes: Towards a Critique of Historical Reason , presented in a national conference on "Singularities: Literature, Language, Philosophy", held at School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University on 9th and 10th January 2012.

  • The Gift of Beatitudes at the Centre for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, on 29th November 2011

  • Walter Benjamin: Between Theology and History at the Centre for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, on 29th November 2011

  • The Commandment of Love: Messianicity and Exemplarity in Franz Rosenzweig in "The History of Philosophy", Athens Institute of Educations and Research, Athens, Greece , 30th May to 2nd June 2011

  • The Abyss of Human Freedom, at the Centre of Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, on 27th August 2011.

  • The Promise of Time: Towards a Phenomenology of Promise , Indian Institute of Advanced Study, on 30th March 2011.

  • Erotic and Philosophy: A Note on Love, Life and Thought, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, on 6th May, 2010.

  • The Infinite Contestation in "Society and Literature", by ICSSR and North East Hill University, Shillong , 16-18th March 2010.

  • (Dis)Figures of Death: Taking the Side of Death, Taking the Side of Derrida in " Symposium on Derrida", School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU, 9th Oct 2009.

  • The Open , Indian Institute of Advanced Study,10th Sept 2009.

  • Is Freedom the First Right? In " Moral Dilemmas in the Globalized World", the Center for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, I, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 27-29 Feb. 2008

  • Of Fatigue, Of Patience – Finitude, Writing, Mourning in "Levinas – Blanchot: Penser La Difference" , organized at UNESCO, Paris , 13-16 Nov. 2006.

  • The Wounded Negativity: Reflections on Tragedy, Community and The Ethical Order in "Public Sphere: The Fate of a philosophical Concept", Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India on 21st March 2006.

  • Tears of Reading: Responding to Heidegger-Sartre Debate (Once More), in "Philosophy and History of Philosophy" , Delhi University, India on 19th, 20th, and 21st Jan. 2006.

  • Aesthetics, Politics, Philosophy , School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, Monsoon Semester, 2005.

  • Of the Limit: Death, Philosophy, Literature in " Deconstruction Icon Jacques Derrida ",the Group of Philosophy, J.N.U, 23rd March 2005.

  • The Experience of the Limit: Nietzsche's Abyssal Experience of the Eternal Return in "Nietzsche: Philologist, philosopher and the Cultural Critic", CLE, JNU, 2nd to 4th Nov. 2004.

  • The Impossible Other: A Postcolonial Critique of Identity in "Postcolonial Literature: Politics, Poetics, Praxis", JNU by IACLALS, 23-25 Jan. 2003.

  • Reason and History: The Question of Being and Historicity in Western Thought in "Problems of Social History", History Association, Center of Historical Study, School of Social Studies, JNU on 23rd Feb 2002.

  • Tragic Responsibility and the Limits of Knowledge in " Beyond the Linguistics Turn: Literature, Culture, Philosophy", Center of Linguistics and English (CLE), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), 22nd to 26th Jan. 2002.