Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and the perversion of critique
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Date
2014
Authors
Eloff, Rene
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University of the Free State
Abstract
In this article I investigate the relationship between Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and
philosophy in the context of the intellectual history of the University of the Free State.
I show how two philosophers that were respectively associated with the Department
of Political Science and the Department of Philosophy, H J Strauss (1912-1995) and
E A Venter (1914-1968), drew on the philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd to justify
separate development. I argue that their interpretation does not simply amount to a
wilful misunderstanding of Dooyeweerd, but rather that the foundational moment of
Dooyeweerd’s philosophy involves an interpretive violence that accommodates this
interpretation.
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Apartheid, Afrikaner nationalism, University of the Free State
Citation
Eloff, R. (2014). Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and the perversion of critique. Acta Academica: Law as a humanities discipline: transformative potential and political limits, 46(3), 175-195.