Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa
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Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa

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Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa

About this book

In examining the intellectual history in contemporary South Africa, Eze engages with the emergence of ubuntu as one discourse that has become a mirror and aftermath of South Africa s overall historical narrative. This book interrogates a triple socio-political representation of ubuntu as a displacement narrative for South Africa s colonial consciousness; as offering a new national imaginary through its inclusive consciousness, in which different, competing, and often antagonistic memories and histories are accommodated; and as offering a historicity in which the past is transformed as a symbol of hope for the present and the future. This book offers a model for African intellectual history indignant to polemics but constitutive of creative historicism and healthy humanism.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780230622999
eBook ISBN
9780230109698
Topic
History
Subtopic
Languages
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 South Africa: The Past is Another Country
  11. 3 South African (Black) Nationalist Ideologies and Resistance Movements
  12. 4 The “Prophets” and the “Apocalypse”
  13. 5 When the Chickens Come Home to Roost
  14. 6 Ubuntu: Many Voices of a History
  15. 7 Ubuntu: A Critique of Colonial/Apartheid Reason?
  16. 8 Ubuntu and the Making of South African Imaginary
  17. 9 Ubuntu: Toward a New Public Discourse
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index