Name: Pritika Nehra
Designation: Assistant Professor
Email: pritikanehra@iisermohali.ac.in
Education: Ph.D. (Philosophy), IIT Delhi. 2009: M.Phil (English), Panjab University, Chandigarh. 2006: MA (English), Panjab University, Chandigarh. 2004: B.A. (Hons.) English, G.C.G.-11, Chandigarh.
Employment: 2025-Present: Assistant Professor, IISER Mohali 2024-2025 : Assistant Professor, Christ (Deemed-to-be-University), NCR Campus 2015-2023 : Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc), PGDAV College (M), University of Delhi
Areas of Research: Continental Political Philosophy, Hannah Arendt Studies, Organized Loneliness in Contemporary Societies, Critical AI Studies, Philosophy of Work and Labour, Literary Theory and Criticism
Research Focus: My research work lies in the field of Political Philosophy and Ethics, with particular reference to Hannah Arendt. I have engaged extensively with themes such as sovereignty, the legitimacy of a world state, political rights, cosmopolitanism, and revolution, especially as they emerge in the political philosophy of Immanuel Kant. In addition, I also explore literary, artistic, historical and political manifestations of the philosophical problem of Loneliness in contemporary contexts. Beyond the scope of my doctoral work, my academic interests extend to a broader range of literary and philosophical inquiries. Currently, one of my key engagements lie in the Philosophy of work and labor in the present times, particularly in relation to emerging technologies and the evolving structures of global political order.
Teaching: HSS652: Select Themes in Contemporary Global Political Thought
HSS101: Language Skills
Selected Publications:
• Poetic Metaphor, Thinking and Truth. Tattva Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2025):
31-46 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12726/tjp.333
• ‘Cosmopolitan Solidarities of Difference in a Broken World’. HannahArendt.Net: Journal for
Political Thinking. Vol.12 No.1 (2022): 94-106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.57773/hanet.v12i1
• Lonelinesss and the Crisis of Work. Ed. Pritika Nehra. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2021. DOI: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-6912-6
• ‘The Political Concerns of Loneliness’ in Loneliness and the Crisis of Work. Cambridge
Scholars Pub, 2021: 2-19. DOI: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/
978-1-5275-6912-6
• ‘Political Vision(s) in Plato’s Republic and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels’ in Eds. Janelle Pötzsch
et. al. Jonathan Swift and Philosophy Rowman & Littlefield (December 2016): 221-236. DOI:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/jonathan-swift-and-philosophy-9781498521543/
• ‘Located in the World by Default: Hannah Arendt and Samkya Yoga on Thinking’ in Orte des
Denkens/Places of Thinking (Welten der Philosophie) Eds. Murat Ates et.al. Verlag Karl Alber,
Ist Edition, 17th November, 2015: 164-179. DOI: https://www.amazon.com.au/Orte-Denkens-
Places-Thinking-Murat/dp/3495487670
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‘Judging Work: The Concept of “Work” in Hannah Arendt’s ‘The Human Condition’ in The
Value of Work in Contemporary Society Ed. Dominika Polkowska. Oxfordshire, U.K: Inter-
Disciplinary Press, 2014: 43-52. DOI: https://brill.com/display/book/9781848883574/
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• ‘Bridging the binaries of Gender construction in Ursula K. Le Guin’s science fiction’ in New
Women’s Writing: Contextualizing Fiction, Poetry and Philosophy, Eds. Subashish
Bhattacharjee and Girindra Narayan Ray. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018: 230-242.
DOI: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-0814-9
• ‘Walter Benjamin on Translation and Aesthetic Resistance: A Case for Practicing Postcolonial
Translation’ in Glocal Colloquies, 1.1 (2015): 138-147. DOI: https://web.archive.org/web/
20200713040600/http://glocalcolloquies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/12-Nehra-
Pritika-.pdf