Ubuntu
Subtitle: curating the archive
By: edited by Leonhard Praeg and Siphokazi Magadla
Series: Thinking Africa
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Scottsville, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781869142650
Subjects: Humanism; Social values; Philosophy; African Philosophy; Ethics
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Leonhard Praeg and Siphokazi Magadla; title: Justice otherwise: thoughts on Ubuntu / Lewis R. Gordon; title: The historical discourse on African humanism: interrogating the paradoxes / Ama Biney; title: Ubuntu verses the core values of the South African constitution / Ilze Keevy; title: From ubuntu to Ubuntu: four historic a prioris / Leonhard Praeg; title: Ubuntu: affirming a right and seeking remedies in South Africa / Mogobe B. Ramose; title: Utu, usawa, uhuru: building blocks of Nyerere's political philosophy / Issa G. Shivji; title: Ubuntu and the law: some lessons for the practical application of Ubuntu / Katherine Furman; title: 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.