{"product_id":"teaching-spivak-otherwise-peter-mclaren-9781433163517","title":"Teaching Spivak--Otherwise: A Contribution to the Critique of the Post-Theory Farrago","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrounded in the revolutionary Marxist view that \"theory ... becomes a material force when it has seized the masses,\" \u003ci\u003eTeaching Spivak--Otherwise: A Contribution to the Critique of the Post-Theory Farrago\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eTeaching Spivak--Otherwise\u003c\/i\u003e does for Spivak what Frederick Engels did for Eugen Dühring 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter McLaren,Jerry D. Leonard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1433163519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781433163517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Peter McLaren","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088237572351,"sku":"9781433163517","price":100.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_faefe211-790e-4325-b695-a32ff84c3401.jpg?v=1769103818","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/teaching-spivak-otherwise-peter-mclaren-9781433163517","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}