Martin Versfeld
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Martin Versfeld
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Author : Ernst Wolff
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-15
Martin Versfeld written by Ernst Wolff and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-15 with Philosophy categories.
Martin Versfeld (1909–1995) is one of South Africa’s greatest philosophers, appreciated by academics and activists, poets and the broader public. His masterful prose spans the tension between disquiet and joy. Detractor of the violent trends of modernity, a critic of apartheid from the first hour, he was among the first philosophers of ecology. At the same time he celebrated the generosity of the world and advocated an ethics of simplicity, drawing on mediaeval theology and Eastern wisdom. His philosophy offered food for thought in dark times of the 20th century, as it still does for us in the 21st century. This first book-length study on Versfeld is an invitation to think with him on justice and exploitation, cultural difference and human nature, religion and the environment, time and connectedness.
Hidden Mutualities
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Author : Michael Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2006
Hidden Mutualities written by Michael Mitchell and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Drama categories.
Hidden mutualities link the work of major postcolonial writers with Christopher Marlowe's drama of the Faustian pact - the manipulation of the material world in exchange for the soul - written as the 'scientific' world-view was emerging which accompanied the imperial expansion of Europe and has determined the economic and social structures of the colonial and postcolonial world. This fascinating study brings together researches in widely different fields to show how Doctor Faustus reflects a Gnostic / Hermetic tradition marginalized within the dominant European power structures. Rediscovered in the Renaissance, and combined with occult arts such as alchemy and magic, this living tradition informs the work of 'Magus' figures such as Pico della Mirandola, Marcilio Ficino, Trithemius, Johannes Reuchlin, Agrippa of Nettesheim, Paracelsus and John Dee, who are reflected in the Faust tradition and in Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest. The second part investigates the dual legacy of the Magus. A counterpoint between a law-governed objective material world and an occult visionary pursuit of the divine potential of the human imagination is traced through the examples of Johan Kepler, Robert Fludd, Isaac Newton, William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, Aleister Crowley, W.B. Yeats, Wolfgang Pauli and C.G. Jung. In the third part, textual analysis reveals how attention to these Faustian themes opens new and exciting critical perspectives in appreciating the works of postcolonial writers, in particular Dimetos by Athol Fugard, Disappearance by David Dabydeen, Omeros by Derek Walcott, and the novels of Wilson Harris.
Philosophical Theologies In South Africa Genealogies Traditions And Speculations
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Author : Khegan M. Delport
language : en
Publisher: UJ Press
Release Date : 2024-10-22
Philosophical Theologies In South Africa Genealogies Traditions And Speculations written by Khegan M. Delport and has been published by UJ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-22 with Religion categories.
The relationship between philosophy and theology has been a live question since the origins of Christianity. Attending to a genealogy of how ‘theology’ and ‘philosophy’ have been related is important for conceiving their ongoing engagement. However, the question of context, of where they are so related and practiced, has only recently begun to be reflected upon. The current volume aims to make a contribution to this recounting by focusing on some of the ways theology and philosophy have been and are being interfaced in the Global South, and more specifically in South Africa.
Aaron Klug A Long Way From Durban
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Author : Kenneth C. Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-09
Aaron Klug A Long Way From Durban written by Kenneth C. Holmes and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The life and work of Aaron Klug, Nobel prize winner and one of the pioneers of structural molecular biology.
Migrating Texts And Traditions
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Author : William Sweet
language : en
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Release Date : 2012-12-15
Migrating Texts And Traditions written by William Sweet and has been published by University of Ottawa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-15 with Philosophy categories.
There can be little dispute that culture influences philosophy: we see this in the way that classical Greek culture influenced Greek philosophy, that Christianity influenced mediaeval western philosophy, that French culture influenced a range of philosophies in France from Cartesianism to post-modernism, and so on. Yet many philosophical texts and traditions have also been introduced into very different cultures and philosophical traditions than their cultures of origin – through war and colonialization, but also through religion and art, and through commercial relations and globalization. And this raises questions such as: What is it to do French philosophy in Africa, or Analytic philosophy in India, or Buddhist philosophy in North America? This volume examines the phenomenon of the ‘migration’ of philosophical texts and traditions into other cultures, identifies places where it may have succeeded, but also where it has not, and discusses what is presupposed in introducing a text or a tradition into another intellectual culture.
The Dominican Friars In Southern Africa
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Author : Philippe Denis
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-05-18
The Dominican Friars In Southern Africa written by Philippe Denis and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-18 with Religion categories.
The purpose of this book is to gather in a single narrative the rather disparate stories of Dominican friars in Southern Africa over the past four centuries. Dominicans from Portugal and Portuguese India were present in South-East Africa from 1577 to 1835. Patrick Raymond Griffith, an Irish Dominican, became the first resident bishop in South Africa in 1837. A Dominican mission was established in 1917 with the arrival of a group of English friars. A second group arrived from the Netherlands in 1932. The aim is to provide a social history of the Dominicans in Southern Africa, that is, a history that deals specifically with the social and cultural factors of historical development. The Dominicans ministered in a political, social and cultural context which impacted on their apostolic activities and, in turn, was affected by them. The book's terminus ad quem is 1990, when the National Party opened a process of political negotiation, thus ending more than forty years of apartheid rule.
The Dialectical Tradition In South Africa
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Author : Andrew Nash
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-06-16
The Dialectical Tradition In South Africa written by Andrew Nash and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-16 with History categories.
Exploring the defence and articulation of free speech in South Africa, Nash examines Dutch attempts to modernize the legacy of the Enlightenment, the existentialism of a generation of Afrikaners during the 1940s and the renewal of Afrikaans literature.
The Christian God
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Author : Augustine Shutte
language : en
Publisher: ATF Press
Release Date : 2024-10-31
The Christian God written by Augustine Shutte and has been published by ATF Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-31 with Religion categories.
The Christian God presents South African philosopher Augustine Shutte's understanding of his Christian faith. Through a chronological series of essays, written over a period of fifty years, we are invited to trace the development of this theology and its application to a wide variety of topics. In an entertaining introductory chapter, Shutte explains the provenance of each essay and the intention of the author at the time. A final chapter is a reflection by the editor, Patrick Giddy, on the import of Shutte's theological development, drawing upon unpublished notebook entries and on his religious poetry.
The Bonhoeffer Legacy
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Author : ATF Press
language : en
Publisher: ATF Press
Release Date : 2018-12-31
The Bonhoeffer Legacy written by ATF Press and has been published by ATF Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-31 with Religion categories.
This collection of essays looks at a range of topics: public theology, why Chinese intlectuals are intersted in engaging with Bonhoeffer, Bonhoeffers concept of the logos and public theology and Bohoeffer's approach to social analyis. Contibutors: Barry Harvey, Robert Vosloo, Jason Lam, Joel Banman and Dustin Benac.
Amid The Alien Corn
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Author : Dennis Walder
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2025-06-28
Amid The Alien Corn written by Dennis Walder and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A memoir describing how a search for the truth about the author’s enigmatic, distant mother bears witness to past and present oppression.