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Ubuntu : curating the archive
Title
Ubuntu : curating the archive / edited by Leonhard Praeg and Siphokazi Magadla.
ISBN
9781869142650
1869142659
Publication
Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014.
Physical Description
xiii, 231 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 27, 2014
Series
Thinking Africa
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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