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Ubuntu : curating the archive / edited by Leonhard Praeg and Siphokazi Magadla.
Van Pelt Library B5315.U28 U28 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Thinking Africa
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ubuntu (Philosophy).
- Philosophy, African.
- Humanism--Africa.
- Humanism.
- Social values--Africa--Philosophy.
- Social values.
- Philosophy.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 231 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- "This collection of essays contextualises the discourse on Ubuntu within the wider historical framework of postcolonial attempts to re-articulate African humanism as a substantial philosophy and emancipatory ideology." -- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Leonhard Praeg and Siphokazi Magadla
- Justice otherwise: thoughts on Ubuntu / Lewis R. Gordon
- The historical discourse on African humanism: interrogating the paradoxes / Ama Biney
- Ubuntu verses the core values of the South African constitution / Ilze Keevy
- From ubuntu to Ubuntu: four historic a prioris / Leonhard Praeg
- Ubuntu: affirming a right and seeking remedies in South Africa / Mogobe B. Ramose
- Utu, usawa, uhuru: building blocks of Nyerere's political philosophy / Issa G. Shivji
- Ubuntu and the law: some lessons for the practical application of Ubuntu / Katherine Furman
- Ubuntu and subaltern legality / Drucilla Cornell / The self become God: Ubuntu and the 'scandal of manhood' / Siphokazi Magadla and Ezra Chitando / Concluding reflections: the 'fierce urgency of now' / Danielle Alyssa Bowler.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1869142659
- 9781869142650
- OCLC:
- 881707322
- Publisher Number:
- 99960135102
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