A report on Ubuntu
By: Leonhard Praeg
Series: Thinking Africa; Thinking Africa
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Scottsville, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781869142568
Subjects: Ubuntu (Philosophy); African Philosophy; Humanism; Social values; Philosophy; Ethics
Description: "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 (epoché) 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. 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." -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-287) and index.