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

Download or read book Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching written by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching attempts to track the ‘literary’ in the production of ethics and politics. Ethics here is not an inventory of moral principles to be followed in action. Instead, the ethical is proposed as an unconditional call to which the human being must learn to respond. Even years after its publication, the arguments Spivak makes retain their relevance for students of the social sciences.