Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa (2010)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2010
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780230109698
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780230622999
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan US, New York
- Date of Addition:
- 12/09/20
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- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Foreign Language Study
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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