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Review of Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Author(s):
- Subhasis Chattopadhyay (see profile)
- Editor(s):
- Swami Narasimhananda
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Advocating for the Humanities, Digital Humanists, Poetics and Poetry
- Subject(s):
- Literature, Culture, Enlightenment, Theology, Hinduism, Tantrism, Power (Social sciences), Criticism, Textual, Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
- Item Type:
- Book review
- Tag(s):
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Tantra, Partha Chatterjee, Theory, Literature and culture of the Enlightenment, Power, Literary theory, Textual scholarship, Michel Foucault
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/4pza-gy94
- Abstract:
- This is a reading of Spivak as an heir to Sri Avinavagupta and Sri Ramakrishna. We ignore the fact that Spivak is a Shakta in her corpus. This review corrects/revises our understanding of Spivak and reinstates her as she really deserves to be read: she is within the traditions of Tantra. Spivak, in her own writings and interviews, has long spoken of her Tantric roots. This review in Prabuddha Bharata, which is the mouthpiece of the Ramakrishna Mission whose disciple Spivak is, published this review because it carries on, as it were, the cultural work of analysing the precomprehensible in Spivak. There is a typo in the review since nothing in this world is or can be, perfect!
- Notes:
- There are necessary digressions and one typo in the review. The digressions are needed to acquaint a non-Tantric audience of Spivak's Tantric antecedents. The issue has been edited by the polyglot Swami Narasimhananda.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book review
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
reviewspivakasashakta.pdf