Prof. Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

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Ashoka University, New Delhi

Bio: 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’.