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Ka Osi Sọ Onye: African Philosophy in the Postmodern Era
Av Jonathan O. Chimakonam, Edwin Etieyibo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
936 kr
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Subtle Gravity
Häftad, 2021
313 kr
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What is addiction? Who is an addict, and why? Are we only addicted to substances, or also to patterns of thought: self-loathing, doubt, obsessive thinking, and perhaps even silence?Subtle Gravity, like Praeg's first novel, Imitation, departs from the assumption that we are all addicts. We all …
Report on Ubuntu
Häftad, 2014
370 kr
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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 …
Violence in/and the Great Lakes
The Thought of V-Y Mudimbe and Beyond
Av Grant Farred, Kasereka Kavwahirehi m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
361 kr
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Violence in/and the Great Lakes: The Thought of V.Y. Mudimbe and Beyond is, in the best sense of the term, a homage to Valentin Mudimbe. This collection of essays honours the intellectual legacy of Mudimbe, for decades now one of Africa and the diaspora’s most significant minds, by taking up the …
Imitation
Häftad, 2017
377 kr
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Imitation happened when an unsuspecting philosopher one day found himself equally outraged by South African president Jacob Zuma’s Big Man building project in Nkandla; awed, all over again, by Milan Kundera’s Immortality; and numbed by the monument to hubris generally known as ‘the highest basilica …
Philosophy on the Border
Decoloniality and the Shudder of the Origin
Av Leonhard Praeg, Leonhard Praeg
Häftad, 2018
251 kr
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In 2015 and 2016, institutions of higher education across South Africa exploded in a series of protests/revolts, collectively referred to in this volume as #MustFall. An important sub-discourse articulated the student protests/revolt as an iteration of the founding of South Africa as democratic …
