Teaching Spivak-Otherwise - A Contribution to the Critique of the Post-Theory Farrago (Hardcover, New edition)

Grounded in the revolutionary Marxist view that "theory ... becomes a material force when it has seized the masses," Teaching Spivak-Otherwise: A Contribution to the Critique of the Post-Theory Farrago activates the practice of critique as a mode of "teaching otherwise" for transformative social change. Taking the post-theory teachings of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as its central focus, author Jerry D. Leonard meticulously unpacks Spivak's fashionably dense writings and "talks." His analyses reveal that what passes for "radical" thought in the dominant humanities is actually a sustained mystification that attempts to erase class struggle and class critique from the realm of knowledge. One of the book's most significant interventions is its powerful appropriation of "close reading" as a strategy in the broader project of ideology critique. Teaching Spivak-Otherwise does for Spivak what Frederick Engels did for Eugen Duhring and Mao Zedong did for Deng Xiaoping: it teaches the class lesson that Spivak's thought is a complexly obscured articulation of "new" ruling class ideas in what Lenin called "a farrago of contrasting principles ..., an urge to rise verbally to the higher spheres and conceal the conflicts between the historical groups of the population with phrases." This book will be a useful supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate courses in contemporary critical theory and pedagogy.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Education and Struggle, 19
Release date:	March 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Jerry D. Leonard
Dimensions:	225 x 150mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	104
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-6351-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of a specific subject Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	1-4331-6351-9
Barcode:	9781433163517

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