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The Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education
1439924961 epub Apartheid, ironically, provided Grant Farred with the optimal conditions for thinking. He describes South Africas apartheid regime as an intellectual force that, Made thinking apartheid, more than anything else, an absolute necessity. The Perversity of Gratitude is a provocative book in which Farred reflects on an upbringing resisting apartheid. Although he is still inclined to struggle viscerally against apartheid, he acknowledges, It is me. Unsentimental about his education, Farreds critique recognizes the impact of four exceptional teachersall engaging pedagogical figures who cultivated a great sense of possibility in how thinking could be learned through a disenfranchised South African education. Read more