[Debate] (Fwd) New book about Dennis Brutus launched next Wed in PE

[Patrick Bond]

*TIME WITH DENNIS BRUTUS
by Cornelius Thomas
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*WENDY'S BOOK LOUNGE kindly invites you to the official book launch of*

*/Time with Dennis Brutus: Conversations, Quotations and Snapshots/**, 
by Cornelius Thomas*

*Host: Wendy's Book Lounge*

Presenter: Cornelius Thomas

Venue: South End Museum, Port Elizabeth

Date: Wednesday, 11 July 2012, 6.00 for 6.30pm

*Price of book -- R239.00*


*Foreword*

In /Time with Dennis Brutus, /Cornelius Thomas provides exquisite 
glimpses of how Dennis lived his last five years. I was with him most of 
that time in Durban, where the Centre for Civil Society was blessed to 
have him as honorary professor. But he did more than pontificate, he 
drove my colleagues and me in ways that expanded our horizons by making 
real the Centre's epistemology: praxis. By that I mean the production of 
knowledge in struggle, such that by challenging power -- in all sorts of 
guises -- the most extraordinary revelations are produced. We learn far 
more than might any armchair academic, about a system's ability to 
repress, to coopt, to consolidate, to concede and to challenge the 
powerless, and how those various reactions by power to its critics, in 
turn, change the critics. Dennis always pushed us, even until the month 
before he died -- where his last public talk was at the 'Crisis and 
Commons' conference, which he had spent the prior six months helping to 
conceptualise and organize.