Ethics and Polotics In Tagore, Coetzee, and certain scenes of teaching

Abstract

This essay, and “Righting Wrongs” represent my highest hopes for the humanities.    

It was two years later that I realized that my convictions had been fed by an artificially

preserved “authentic” tribal group in the interest of feudalist benevolence. That shock has been matched by the joining of political correctness and corporate funding at the other end. I have kept the outlines of this piece undisturbed because of the internal consistency of that deluded conviction. Read it with bemusement, then, and a suspicion of golden-agist culturalisms.