Perversity of Gratitude (eBook)

An Apartheid Education

Grant Farred (Autor)

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2024
Temple University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4399-2498-3 (ISBN)

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Apartheid, ironically, provided Grant Farred with the optimal conditions for thinking. He describes South Africa's apartheid regime as an intellectual force that, "e;Made thinking apartheid, more than anything else, an absolute necessity."e; 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, "e;It is me."e; Unsentimental about his education, Farred's critique recognizes the impact of four exceptional teachers-all engaging pedagogical figures who cultivated a great sense of possibility in how thinking could be learned through a disenfranchised South African education. The Perversity of Gratitude brings to bear the work of influential philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. The book tackles broad philosophical concepts-transgression, withdrawal, and the dialectic. This leads to the creation of a new concept, "e;the diaspora-in-place,"e; which Farred explains, "e;is having left a place before one physically removes oneself from this place."e; Farred's apartheid education in South Africa instilled in him a lifelong commitment to learning thinking. "e;And for that I am grateful,"e; Farred writes in The Perversity of Gratitude. His autopoiesis is sure to provoke and inspire readers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.1.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4399-2498-8 / 1439924988
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4399-2498-3 / 9781439924983