Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa

• Author(s): M. Eze,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 220
• ISBN_10: 0230109691
  ISBN_13: 9780230109698
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Asia / General , History / Africa / General , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Literary Criticism / African , Foreign Language Study / African Languages , History / General , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference ,

Description:... 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.