Description: "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"--
Review Quotes: "Farred offers readers who dare a perverse anthropology of 'the surprising intellectual processes that were put into motion precisely because of the violence that the apartheid regime intended its policies to enact on the disenfranchised mind.' Both loving tribute to his intellectual influences and unsparing theorizing of the conditions of his education, Farred brings apartheid thinking, as a 'primal scene, ' home to Heidegger and Derrida. Relentless in its audacity, dizzying in its intellectual reach and range, this book thinks--with rigor, ferocity, and grace--the unthinkable."--Dana D. Nelson, Nancy Perot Chair of English and Professor of American Studies at Vanderbilt University, and author of Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People