A report on ubuntu / Leonhard Praeg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Praeg, Leonhard.

Series:

Thinking Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanism--Africa.

Humanism.

Social values--Africa--Philosophy.

Social values.

Philosophy, African.

Ethics--Africa.

Ethics.

Philosophy.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xiii, 305 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014.

Summary:

"Twenty years after the end of apartheid rule, the claim that democratic South Africa is founded on the 'spirit of law' (nomos) of our shared humanity is questionable, to say the least. Some would argue that all talk of Ubuntu (or African humanism) should be dismissed as a passing fad of an exhausted nationalism. But a different response to the present is possible, one that proceeds from a temporary suspension (epoché) of the nationalist matrix and all the dead-end questions that have resulted from it, in order to reposition Ubuntu in the more cosmopolitan terms of a critical humanism that must always remain irreducible to the politics of the day. This is a project that has to return to, in order to retrace, the founding claim that a politics premised on our shared humanity is, after all, perhaps possible." -- Back cover.

Contents:

Part I 31

1 A Political Economy of Obligation 33

2 African Modes of Writing and Being 83

Part II 133

3 African Socialism 135

4 The Law: First Epoché 179

5 The Law: Second Epoché 224.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781869142568

186914256X

OCLC:

873994370