Joydeep Bagchee

Dr. Joydeep Bagchee is a core doctoral faculty member at the Hindu University of America and a visiting lecturer based in Berlin, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from New School for Social Research, New York. His areas of expertise are twentieth-century Continental philosophy, German Romanticism, Nietzsche, philology, and the Western reception of Indian thought.

Past Olios with Joydeep Bagchee

Privilege and Its Discontents: Arendt, Assimilated Jews, and the Academy
Many Americans are involved in a conversation on privilege, exclusion, and race. Against this backdrop, we will ask in this Olio: how is privilege constructed and maintained by looking at the example of the original "pariah people," European Jews? Join us as we gather for a close reading of select passages from Arendt's "Privileged Jews" and discuss how the text is more relevant than ever in our modern landscape.

Venue: None

Teacher: Joydeep Bagchee

April 10, 2021, 2 p.m.

Apocalypse Now
Technology looks like the antidote to Covid. At the same time, what if Covid and technology are two sides of a greater power that is slowly forcing us into the technological era? This is the problematic thesis of German philosopher Martin Heidegger: technology is not of man’s making, but an essential destining, a summons he can neither refuse nor ignore.

Venue: None

Teacher: Joydeep Bagchee

May 30, 2020, 2 p.m.

Apocalypse Now
Technology looks like the antidote to Covid. At the same time, what if Covid and technology are two sides of a greater power that is slowly forcing us into the technological era? This is the problematic thesis of German philosopher Martin Heidegger: technology is not of man’s making, but an essential destining, a summons he can neither refuse nor ignore.

Venue: None

Teacher: Joydeep Bagchee

April 26, 2020, 3 p.m.

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