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

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-948669-4
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 88 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 121 mm x 184 mm, Gewicht: 141 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakravarty Spivak, Gayatri

Chaudhuri, Rosinka

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chaudhuri, Rosinka

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

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.