Saitya Brata Das | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University

Saitya Brata Das

Associate Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for English Studies,

School of Language Literature and Culture Studies

Room No

149

Off. Phone

011-26704245

sbdas@mail.jnu.ac.in

Personal Webpage

https://saityabratadas.academia.edu/

Qualifications

M. A: Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2000
Ph. D: Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2005
Post Doctoral Research: UFR Philosophie, Université de Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France, 2006-2007

Areas of Interest/Specialization

1. Philosophy of Literature

2. Political Theology

3. Contemporary Continental Thought

4. F.W.J. von Schelling

Experience

21 Years

Awards & Honours

* Hermes Fellow at UFR Philosophie, Université de Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France, 2006-2007

* Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla,2009-11

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Political Theology of Life (Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2023).
2. The World to Come: Writings on Ethics and Politics (London: Routledge, 2022).
3. The Political Theology of Kierkegaard (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
4. Death, Time and the Other: Ethics at the Limit of Metaphysics (Springer, 2020)
5. The Political Theology of Schelling (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

1.“Singularity to Come” in Journal for Cultural Research, Vol 26: issue 2 (London: Taylor & Francis, 2022), pp. 117-124
2. “The Kenotic Eschatology of Schelling” in Nothing Absolute: German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology: Kant to Marx, eds. Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet (Fordham University Press, 2021),pp. 207-222.
3. “Destitution of Sovereignty: The Political Theology of Søren Kierkegaard” in Kierkegaard and Political Theology, ed. Roberto Sirvent (Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2018).
4. “The Gift of the World: A Note on Political Theology” in Culture and Religion (London: Taylor& Francis), Vol. 15, issue 3, Autumn 2014. ISSN: 1475-5610.
5. "The Irreducible Remainder : Towards the Idea of a Finite Politics" in Journal for Cultural Research ( London: Routledge, October 2012), vol. 16, issue 4, pp.418-442