Walter Omar Kohan. Paulo Freire : a philosophical biography [book review]

Abstract

Another book on Paulo Freire, whose birth centenary is being celebrated this year, has seen the light. I keep saying that, as long as there is rigour and new ‘takes’ on Freire as a subject to think with, then such books are welcome. I personally think that these qualities are contained in Walter Kohan’s offering which, as Carlos Alberto Torres, prominent Freirean scholar, writes in his endorsement on the back cover of the paperback version in hand, is a tour de force. [excerpt]