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A Discourse on African Philosophy - A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional Justice in South Africa (Paperback)
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A Discourse on African Philosophy - A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional Justice in South Africa (Paperback)
Series: African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
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Many have argued that ubuntu was a formative influence on the
post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), South
Africa's famous transitional justice mechanism. A Discourse on
African Philosophy: A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional
Justice in South Africa challenges and contextualizes this view in
a way that not only provides new findings and reflections on ubuntu
and the TRC, but also contributes to the field of African
philosophy. One of Christian B. N. Gade's key findings, founded on
qualitative interviews in South Africa, is that some former TRC
commissioners and committee members question the importance of
ubuntu in the TRC process. Another is that there are several
differing and historically developing interpretations of ubuntu,
some of which have evident political implications and reflect
non-factual and creative uses of history. Thus ubuntu is not a
shared cultural heritage, in the ethnophilosophical sense of a
static property characterizing a group. In fact, throughout this
book Gade argues that the ethnophilosophical approach to African
philosophy as a static group property is highly problematic. Gade's
research presents an alternative collective discourse on African
philosophy ("collective" in the sense that it does not focus on any
single individual in particular) that takes differences, historical
developments, and social contexts seriously. This book will be of
interest to scholars in African philosophy, transitional justice,
politics and cultural heritage, and law in South Africa.
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