A report on Ubuntu:
"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...
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Pietermaritzburg
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
2014
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| Schriftenreihe: | Thinking Africa
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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 |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-287) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 305 pages 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781869142568 |
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Acknowledgements ft viii
Preface X
Introduction: Three Fragments 1
Part I 31
1 A Political Economy of Obligation 33
2 African Modes of Writing and Being 83
Part II 133
3 African Socialism 135
4 The Law: First Epoche 179
5 The Law: Second Epoche 224
Coda: In Itself 275
Select Bibliography 278
Index 288
A REPORT ON UBUNTU
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 (epoche) 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.
Leonhard Praeg is associate professor in the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes
University, Grahamstown. His previous publications include African Philosophy and the Quest for Autonomy:
A Philosophical investigation (2000), The Geometry of Violence: Africa, Girard, Modernity (2007) and Creating
Destruction: Constructing Images of Violence and Genocide (co-edited with Nancy Billias, 2011).
Fasten your seatbelts: an ultra-forceful, ultra-provocative and ultra-erudite mind is at work in this book - the
journey is complicated and upstream, with a number of brilliant insights along the way/
- Albie Sachs, former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa
This is the most brilliant work of postcolonial philosophy I have read in years. The way Praeg interrogates
Ubuntu in order to rescue its emancipatory potential is mind blowing; so is the interrogation of Western
philosophy that emerges from Ubuntu as unthought of Western modernity. This is radical postcolonial
philosophy at its best, drinking in the deep waters of irredeemable losses and absences/
— Boaventura de Sousa Santos, professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra, Portugal,
and distinguished legal scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
This is a testimony. It is a brilliant and highly rewarding journey into Africa s critical humanism, illuminating
communitarian praxis in postcolonial South African modernity/
- V-Y Mudimbe, professor of Literature, Duke University, US,
and Bogumil Jewsiewicki, professor of History, Laval University, Canada
This text addresses questions of African philosophy, contemporary political thought, decolonial studies and
philosophy of law. It also stands on its own as addressing the question of the political through genuine
resources from the Global South without exotic reductionism or European legitimising. European and African
thought are brought together, not in comparison or conflict, but in a struggle to figure out what is posed by the
legacy of subjectivity formed by brutalisation/
- Lewis R. Gordon, professor of Philosophy, Africana Studies and Judaic Studies,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, US
This is a necessary, important and unprecedented philosophical intervention into a debate that, for all the
political posturing, has shown itself unable to think the politics of Ubuntu. Praeg s text redresses that lack by
interrogating, it would seem, every element, every possible contingency, every possible variegation, of the
term. He is relentless in pursuit of rescuing Ubuntu from inanity and political nonsense and, moreover,
instilling in it an intellectual integrity/
-Grant Farred, professor of Africana Studies, Cornell University, US
ISBN 978 1 86914 256 8
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