Intellectual history in contemporary South Africa
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Intellectual history in contemporary South Africa
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-211) and index
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Description
In examining the intellectual history in contemporary South Africa, Eze engages with the emergence of ubuntu as one discourse that has become a mirror and aftermath of South Africa s overall historical narrative. This book interrogates a triple socio-political representation of ubuntu as a displacement narrative for South Africa s colonial consciousness; as offering a new national imaginary through its inclusive consciousness, in which different, competing, and often antagonistic memories and histories are accommodated; and as offering a historicity in which the past is transformed as a symbol of hope for the present and the future. This book offers a model for African intellectual history indignant to polemics but constitutive of creative historicism and healthy humanism.
Table of Contents
Introduction * South Africa: The Past is another country * South African (black) Nationalist ideologies and Resistance Movements * The 'prophets' and the 'Apocalypse' * When the chickens come to roost * Ubuntu: Many voices of a History * Ubuntu: A critique of Colonial/Apartheid reason? * Ubuntu and the making of South African Imaginary * Ubuntu: Towards a new public discourse * Conclusion: Towards a new humanism?
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