Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa

In examining the intellectual history in contemporary South Africa, Eze engages with the emergence of ubuntu as one discourse that has become a mirror and aftermath of South Africa s overall historical narrative. This book interrogates a triple socio-political representation of ubuntu as a displacement narrative for South Africa s colonial consciousness; as offering a new national imaginary through its inclusive consciousness, in which different, competing, and often antagonistic memories and histories are accommodated; and as offering a historicity in which the past is transformed as a symbol of hope for the present and the future. This book offers a model for African intellectual history indignant to polemics but constitutive of creative historicism and healthy humanism.

Author: M. Eze
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/18/2010
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230622999

About the Author
MICHAEL ONYEBUCHI EZE is a Research Fellow at the Kulurwissenschatliches Institut, Essen, Germany and the Editor-in-Chief of The African Communitarian: A Journal of African Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy.