Eloff, Rene2016-06-152016-06-152014Eloff, R. (2014). Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and the perversion of critique. Acta Academica: Law as a humanities discipline: transformative potential and political limits, 46(3), 175-195.0587-2405 (print)2415-0479 (online)http://hdl.handle.net/11660/3022In this article I investigate the relationship between Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and philosophy in the context of the intellectual history of the University of the Free State. I show how two philosophers that were respectively associated with the Department of Political Science and the Department of Philosophy, H J Strauss (1912-1995) and E A Venter (1914-1968), drew on the philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd to justify separate development. I argue that their interpretation does not simply amount to a wilful misunderstanding of Dooyeweerd, but rather that the foundational moment of Dooyeweerd’s philosophy involves an interpretive violence that accommodates this interpretation.enApartheidAfrikaner nationalismUniversity of the Free StateArticleUniversity of the Free State