Ubuntu Curating the Archive |
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| Editor:
| Praeg, Leonard
Magadla, Siphokazi |
| Series title: | Thinking Africa Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-86914-265-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of Kwazulu-Natal Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.95USD $30.95USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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In South Africa, Ubuntu is the term for a kind of humanist philosophy, ethic, or ideology. This book contextualizes the discourse on Ubuntu within the wider historical framework of postcolonial attempts to rearticulate African humanism as a substantial philosophy and emancipatory ideology. As such, the emergence of Ubuntu as a postcolonial philosophy is posited as both a function of and a critical response to Western modernity.
In South Africa, Ubuntu is the term for a kind of humanist philosophy, ethic, or ideology. This book contextualizes the discourse on Ubuntu within the wider historical framework of postcolonial attempts to rearticulate African humanism as a substantial philosophy and emancipatory ideology. As such, the emergence of Ubuntu as a postcolonial philosophy is posited as both a function of and a critical response to Western modernity.