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Intellectual Traditions in South Africa: Ideas, Individuals and Institutions

Editat de Peter Professor Vale, Lawrence Hamilton, Estelle H. Prinsloo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 iun 2014
Intellectual Traditions in South Africa not only deals with political traditions, but gives attention to religious and communal intellectual practices. The book's scope covers interpretations of traditions, such as African nationalism, Afrikaner thought, Black Consciousness, Christianity, feminism, Gandhian ways, Hinduism, Jewish responses, liberalism, Marxism, Muslim voices, Pan Africanism, and positivism. The real value comes from the fact that it takes a great leap to rectify large gaps in South Africa's historiography. According to editor Peter Vale, "Only by rethinking the ideas that made us can we re-imagine the world." Powerful ideas, institutions, and individuals have been central to various colonizing and apartheid projects to directly control and subordinate much of the population. This form of extreme social engineering often fails, and has generated unintended and unforeseen spaces for individual agency and competing ideas. The result has been that even completely totalitarian systems of rule cannot completely stamp out individual human ingenuity and imagination. *** ..". these admirable, well-written chapters distill the main trends of important traditions, including feminism, liberalism, Marxism, and positivism. Highly recommended." -- Choice, Vol. 52, No. 6, February 2015 Subject: African Studies, Apartheid Studies, Sociology, History, Politics, Philosophy, Religious Studies]
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781869142582
ISBN-10: 1869142586
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 150 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Kwazulu Natal Press

Notă biografică

Peter Vale is Professor of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Nelson Mandela Professor of Politics Emeritus at Rhodes University, South Africa. Lawrence Hamilton is Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Estelle H. Prinsloo is a doctoral student at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.