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This chapter argues for a ‘Third World Turn’ in the Continental philosophy of God and the other by analyzing the Spivakian theory of subalternity (the subordinated other). It explains the Spivakian contentions with the postmodern/poststructural assumptions of the ‘colonized other’ while appropriating it with her other notions of marginality and planetarity. In planetarity and in the notion of ‘detranscendentalized sacred,’ she alludes to a de-ontological God and a de-othered subjectivity. Learning to learn from the subaltern, as her pedagogy, is discussed in order to envisage a postcolonial deconstructive (non)method for contemporary theology and philosophy.
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Vinayaraj, Y.T. (2016). Spivak and the ‘Subordinated Other’: The “Third World Turn” in Continental Philosophy. In: Dalit Theology after Continental Philosophy. Postcolonialism and Religions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31268-2_3
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