Description: The world's most renowned critical theorist--who defined the field of postcolonial studies--has radically reoriented her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer sufficient, she argues that aesthetic education is the last available instrument for implementing global justice and democracy.
Brief description: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University and a trainer of elementary school teachers in West Bengal.
Review Quotes: Spivak remains an indispensable leader and guide in the exhilarating conceptual adventure--the trip--which, since the late sixties, we've called theory. Aesthetic Education presents us with lessons that she has learnt on the way--difficult, defiant, sober lessons for these unpromising times. They demand our attention.--Simon During, University of Queensland