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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, “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...

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Derrida and Africa takes up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, with a focus on Derrida's writings specifically on Africa, which were influenced in part by his childhood in El Biar. From chapters that take up Derrida as Mother to contemplations on how to situate Derrida in relation to other African philosophers, from essays that connect deconstruction and diaspora to a chapter that engages the ways in which Derrida-es...

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An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconsciousAn Essay for Ezra is a critique of terror that begins but by no means ends with the presidency of Donald J. Trump. A father addresses his son and a boy shares his observations in a dynamic dialogistic exchange that is a commentary of and for its time, taking the measure of racial terror and of white supremacy both in our moment and ...

As Africana Studies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary throughout the United States, this invigor ating collection presents possibilities for the future of the discipline’s theoretical paths. The essays in Africana Studies focus on philosophy, science, and technology, poetry, literature, and music, the crisis of the state, issues of colonialism, globalization, and neoliberalism, and the ever-expanding diaspora. The editor and contributors to ...

As Africana Studies celebrates its fiftieth anniversary throughout the United States, this invigor ating collection presents possibilities for the future of the discipline’s theoretical paths. The essays in Africana Studies focus on philosophy, science, and technology, poetry, literature, and music, the crisis of the state, issues of colonialism, globalization, and neoliberalism, and the ever-expanding diaspora. The editor and contributors to ...

This book attempts to address crucial political and cultural issues in contemporary South Africa: the experience of being coloured, the occupation of the racial interstices, and the condition of hybridity in a society marked by a penchant for polarity.

Taking up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, this edited collection poses the questions: What is Derrida to Africa? And, its corollary, what is Africa to Derrida?

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Grant Farred is the author of a trilogy of works on sport and the event, of which Entre Nous is the concluding volume. The other two are In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body and The Burden of Over-representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy.

Grant Farred is the author of a trilogy of works on sport and the event, of which Entre Nous is the concluding volume. The other two are In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body and The Burden of Over-representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy.

By examining the politics, literature and culture of an historically disfranchised constituency - the coloured community - this collection of essays sheds critical light on the current issues raging within post-apartheid South Africa.

Grant Farred is a Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University. His most recent books include Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (Temple), Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, and In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body.

Grant Farred is a Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University. His most recent books include Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (Temple), Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, and In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body.

Grant Farred teaches at Cornell University. He is the author of several books, including What’s My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals (Minnesota, 2003) and In Motion, At Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body (Minnesota, 2014).¿

This collection of essays honours the intellectual legacy of Valentin Mudimbe, for decades now one of Africa and the diaspora's most significant minds, by taking up the challenges - ethical, political, philosophical, literary, sociological, anthropological, psychological - his work poses. This book gathers a group of scholars who use the questions posed, the critiques and insights offered and the paradigms constructed by Mudimbe's oeuvre to un...