A report on Ubuntu (Paperback)

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 (epoche) 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. As discussed in this book, 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.

General

Imprint:	University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Country of origin:	South Africa
Series:	Thinking Africa series
Release date:	February 2014
First published:	April 2014
Authors:	Leonhard Praeg
Dimensions:	230 x 170 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	305
ISBN-13:	978-1-86914-256-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
LSN:	1-86914-256-X
Barcode:	9781869142568

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