Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching

ISBN-13: 9780199486694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 88 str.

Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak

Opis

This essay is a version of the text presented as a paper in Kolkata in February 2003. This was the first day of the two-day S. G. Deuskar lecture delivered by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Fifteen years after that event, this essay finds its place among a new CSSSC lecture series titled Social Science Across Disciplines. Spivak's essay on ethics and politics is infused with a concern to bring forward the way the 'literary' works in the production of ethics and politics. The notion of ethics that she uses here is far removed from an inventory of moral principles or moral action. Instead, the ethical, here, is something like a much broader notion of a mentality, or sensibility, which remains part of ones being.

Spivak's essay on ethics and politics is infused with a concern to bring forward the way the 'literary' works in the production of ethics and politics. The notion of ethics that she uses here is far removed from an inventory of moral principles or moral action. Instead, the ethical, here, is something like a much broader notion of a mentality, or sensibility, which remains part of ones being.

Recenzje

Over the last forty years or so some of the most respectable scholars from across the world have given the Deuskar and R.C. Dutt lectures at the CSSSK. Many of these lectures have been published and are considered classics. Also, some of the best research produced at the Centre over the years has been published under its Occasional Papers series; some of these have been published in various forms and have significantly added to our knowledge and theoretical understanding of various aspects of history, society, politics and economy of India. Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay History Programme Victoria University of Wellington

O autorze

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Considered one of the most influential postcolonial intellectuals, Spivak is best known for her essay 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' and for her translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida's De la grammatologie.