Assistant Professor of English, Ashoka University
Ph.D. Jawaharlal Nehru University
Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi’s doctoral dissertation was on the French material phenomenologist Michel Henry, while his M.Phil dissertation was on the Urdu poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal. His research interests range from German Idealism and British Romanticism to phenomenology, existentialism, and structuralist literary theory as well as contemporary 21st-century philosophers like Robert Brandom, Quentin Meillassoux and Ray Brassier.
He is currently working on a history of the reception of European philosophy by South Asian thinkers like Muhammad Iqbal and B.R. Ambedkar, tentatively titled ‘Subcontinental Philosophy’.
Siddiqi has previously taught at various colleges in Delhi University as well as at NSUT, New Delhi. He is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines like The Telegraph, The Hindu, Outlook and Caravan as well as online portals like Scroll.in, Himalmag and The Wire.
1. Journal Article titled “Metaphor and Concept: Some Reflections on the Derrida-Ricouer Debate”
2. Book Chapter titled “Is There a Subcontinental Philosophy?”
3. Book Chapter “Ideology as the Language of Real Life: Michel Henry’s Critique of Ideology” in Language and Culture edited by Saitya Brata Das
4. Journal Article titled “J.N. Mohanty on Self-Evidence and the Possibility of Transcendental Subjectivity” vol 75 issue 3
5. Chapter titled “Life and Time: Reconciling the Scientific and Manifest Images” in Time and Temporality, edited by Matthew J. Kokkatt and Anu Pande