Ethics and politics in Tagore, Coetzee and certain scenes of teaching

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.Considered one of the most influential postcolonial intellectuals, Spivak is best known for her essay 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' and for her translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida's De la grammatologie.

The SG Deuskar and RCDutt lectures are iconic lectures across diverse fields in the social sciences, known widely within the scholarly domain. Both in terms of the brilliance and exceptional stature of the speakers over the ages, and the capacity to address key debates in the subject areas, the series have stood the test of time and enriched varied disciplinary areas. On a scale of 1-10 I would mark the importance of this series at 10. While this is not new work, being published by the OUP will widen the readership and increase the shelf life of the lectures. The original CSSSC publications of the lectures, have gone out of print now and are incredibly difficult to get hold of outside Kolkata, let alone India. Anindita Ghosh Department of History, School of Arts Languages and Cultures University of Manchester