Publication

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

Language

English

Word Count

76,250 words, Guess

Page Count

305 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781869142568
  • ISBN-10186914256X
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014419114
  • OCLC Control Number873994370
  • Better World Books9781869142568
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Classifications

  • DDC170.968
  • LCCB5315.U28 P73 2014
  • LCCB5315.U28P73 2014

Description

"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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Thinking Africa

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