Ubuntu between tradition and modernity: on A report on Ubuntu by Leonard Praeg
| dc.contributor.author | Rossouw, Johann | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-21T08:43:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-06-21T08:43:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In Part 1, I overview Praeg’s points of departure, namely critical humanism, the openness of the norms of justice, the importance of potential, his conception of modernity, a violent ontology, and the state as locus of politics. The remainder of Part 1 concerns the main arguments of his five chapters. These are the shifting meaning of Ubuntu in precolonial, colonial and postcolonial Africa; Nyerere’s ujamaa experiment in Tanzania as a case study of the dangers inherent in ignoring the colonial disruption Ubuntu; the myth of the complete break with the past allegedly represented by post-apartheid South Africa, and how the latter is haunted by Ubuntu, and Praeg’s concluding link between text worker or construction worker and Ubuntu. In part 2, I critically discuss Praeg’s account of modernity and his dualistic distinction between South African Africans and Afrikaners that need to be set aside to decolonise South Africa. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Rossouw, J. (2014). Ubuntu between tradition and modernity: on A report on Ubuntu by Leonard Praeg. Acta Academica: Special issue: social theory, human rights and philosophy, 46(4), 70-92. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0587-2405 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2415-0479 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11660/3147 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Ubuntu | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Praeg, Leonhard | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Critical humanism | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Post-apartheid South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Ubuntu between tradition and modernity: on A report on Ubuntu by Leonard Praeg | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |