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Best readings on justice from the last century? Things I should read or complete reading: Rawls' "A Theory of Justice" (partway through - it's great!); "Letter from Birmingham Jail". What else?
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Not a subject that interests me but Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed seems to be frequently recommended in this context. It lies somewhere in the prehistory of todays cartoon battles over “critical race theory”
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Thanks! I read it as a teenager (IIRC, may have been early 20s), and it had a substantial effect on me; it was, however, rather subsumed by Illich, Holt, Neill, and a few others. I suspect I'd get a lot new out of a reread today, so thanks for the suggestion.
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Heh: they're all in some regard about _being_ a teen, which no doubt upped the interest factor! Funny, though, that wasn't the takeaway. I wrote a 2-minute review of Illich that sums up much of my topline takeaway:
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