Ubuntu : curating the archive /

"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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Praeg, Leonhard, Magadla, Siphokazi
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014.
Series:Thinking Africa.
Subjects:
Table of 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.