Gayatri Spivak, AN AESTHETIC EDUCATION IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION

During the past twenty years, the world's most renowned critical theorist—the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies—has experienced a radical reorientation in her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer sufficient for interpreting the globalized present, she turns elsewhere to make her central argument: that aesthetic education is the last available instrument for implementing global justice and democracy.

In essays on theory, translation, Marxism, gender, and world literature, and on writers such as Assia Djebar, J.M. Coetzee, and Rabindranath Tagore, Spivak argues for the social urgency of the humanities and renews the case for literary studies, imprisoned in the corporate university. "Perhaps," she writes, "the literary can still do something."

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• Globalization
• Gayatri Spivak
• Literary Criticism
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• Critical Theory
• Philosophy
• Bateson
• Double Bind
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@ "Perhaps," she writes, "the literary can still do something."

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