The perversity of gratitude an apartheid education / Grant Farred.

Contents Gratitude: In Three Steps -- Concepts 1: Thinking/Denke -- Gratitude -- Perversity -- The Perversity of Gratitude: In Three Iterations -- Against Commonsense -- Chapter I: A Name: Livingstone High School. Richard Owen Dudley: 1924-2009 -- Interlude I: "Education for Barbarism." -- Concepts 2: Transgression -- There is No Such Thing as a Constitutive Outside -- Chapter II: Morgan MacArthur: English Teacher Nonpareil -- Interlude II: Post-apartheid Education, Unconcealed -- Concepts 3: Thinking a Debt -- The Diaspora-in-Place -- The Unconscious of Gratitude -- The Dialectic, In Black and White -- Interlude III: In-Gratitude -- Concepts 4: Withdrawal -- Chapter III: Stanley Gordon Moise Ridge: Thespian from Natal -- Concepts 5: The Dialectic -- Memory -- Apartheid -- Responsibility. Irresponsibility -- Chapter IV: Richard Moore Rive: Tiananmen Square Day.
Abstract "While recollecting his educational experiences in apartheid South Africa, the author grapples with the oppressive intent of the governing regime alongside its unintended benefits for his intellectual and individual development"-- Provided by publisher.
General noteIncludes index.
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