Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak b. 1942
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942) is an Indian-American philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Postcolonial Philosophy, Post-Structuralism, and Feminism.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian-American literary theorist and philosopher, professor at Columbia University, and one of the founding figures of postcolonial studies. Her translation of and preface to Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology helped introduce deconstruction to the English-speaking world, and her landmark essay Can the Subaltern Speak? interrogated the conditions under which the voices of the most disenfranchised may, or may not, be heard within global academic discourse. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason and An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization have extended her concerns to philosophy, comparative literature, and humanities pedagogy under conditions of globalization.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Indian-American
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Postcolonial Philosophy, Post-Structuralism, Feminism
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:
“Can the subaltern speak?”
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Attributed to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:
“Strategic essentialism is a temporary, self-conscious use of identity for political purposes.”
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Attributed to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:
“The role of the postcolonial intellectual is to learn how to learn from below.”
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Attributed to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:
“Deconstruction is the experience of the impossible.”
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Attributed to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:
“An ethical relation to the other begins in the imagination.”
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- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian-American philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is associated with Postcolonial Philosophy, Post-Structuralism, and Feminism.
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- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian-American literary theorist and philosopher, professor at Columbia University, and one of the founding figures of postcolonial studies.
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- There are 6 attributed quotations from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.