Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa by M. Eze

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By M. Eze

In analyzing the highbrow heritage in modern South Africa, Eze engages with the emergence of ubuntu as one discourse that has develop into a replicate and aftermath of South Africa s total historic narrative. This publication interrogates a triple socio-political illustration of ubuntu as a displacement narrative for South Africa s colonial recognition; as providing a brand new nationwide imaginary via its inclusive awareness, during which diverse, competing, and infrequently opposed thoughts and histories are accommodated; and as supplying a historicity during which the previous is remodeled as a logo of desire for the current and the longer term. This booklet bargains a version for African highbrow heritage offended to polemics yet constitutive of inventive historicism and fit humanism.

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