Who Sings the Nation-State? by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
This spirited and engaging conversation between two of America's most influential cultural critics and international theorists of the last decade explores what both Enlightenment and contemporary philosophers have to say about the idea of the nation-state, who exercises power in today's world, whether there is such a thing as a right to rights, and the past, present, and future of the state in a time of globalization. In a world of migration and shifting allegiances caused by cultural, economic, military, and climatic change, the nation-state, as Judith Butler and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak argue, has become a more provisional place - and its inhabitants, more stateless.
"Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time" (J. M. Bernstein, The New School) "[Spivak's] lifelong search for fresh insights and understanding has transcended the traditional boundaries of discipline while retaining the fire for new knowledge that is the hallmark of a great intellect." (Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University)"
Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of many books, including Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex". Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the author of many books, including The Post-Colonial Critic and Nationalism and Imagination, the latter also published by Seagull Books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906497835 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906497834 |
| Title | Who Sings the Nation-State? |
| Author | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-03-25 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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