{"product_id":"9781349445042","title":"Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason","description":"Education is a violent act, yet this violence is concealed by its good intent. Education presents itself as a distinctly improving, enabling practice. Even its most radical critics assume that education is, at core, an incontestable social good.Setting education in its political context, this book, now in paperback, offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of modern schooling and modern examination, to the rise (and fall) of meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in education, it reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence. Our highest ideals have the lowest origins.Seeking to unsettle a settled conscience, Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason is designed to disturb the reader. Education constitutes us as subjects; we owe our existence to its violent inscriptions. Those who refuse or rebel against our educational present must begin by objecting to the subjects we have become.","brand":"Ansgar Allen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47819468800318,"sku":"9781349445042","price":4274.14,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9781349445042_ce5c2e59-ab68-4a5f-82f2-73b6a1840e14.jpg?v=1707437096","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781349445042","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}