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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Scottsville, South Africa :
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Thinking Africa.
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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.