Ubuntu :
Ubuntu : curating the archive /
edited by Leonhard Praeg and Siphokazi Magadla.
- South Africa University of KwaZulu-Natal Press 2014
- xiii, 231 pages ; 23 cm.
- Thinking Africa .
- Thinking Africa. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
9781869142650 1869142659
Humanism--Africa.
Social values--Philosophy.--Africa
Philosophy, African.
Ethics--Africa.
B5315.U28 / U28 2014
199/.6
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
9781869142650 1869142659
Humanism--Africa.
Social values--Philosophy.--Africa
Philosophy, African.
Ethics--Africa.
B5315.U28 / U28 2014
199/.6