Unfolding narratives of Ubuntu in southern Africa:

"Ubuntu is the African idea of personhood: persons depend on other persons in order to be. This is summarised in the expression: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, that is, a person is a person through persons. This edited collection illustrates the power of fictionalised representation in reporting res...

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Weitere Verfasser: Müller, Julian (HerausgeberIn), Eliastam, John (HerausgeberIn), Trahar, Sheila (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2019
Schriftenreihe:Routledge contemporary Africa
Routledge contemporary Africa series
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Zusammenfassung:"Ubuntu is the African idea of personhood: persons depend on other persons in order to be. This is summarised in the expression: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, that is, a person is a person through persons. This edited collection illustrates the power of fictionalised representation in reporting research conducted on Ubuntu in Southern Africa. The chapters insert the concept of Ubuntu within the broad intellectual debate of self and community, to demonstrate its intellectual and philosophical value and theoretical grounding in known practices emanating from the African continent, and indeed how it works to unsettle some of our received notions of the self. The contributors look at Ubuntu from an array of viewpoints, illustrated by its applicability in different contexts and facets explored in the four research clusters of African literature, law, political science and theology"--
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ISBN:9781351055826
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