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The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa Andrew Nash

The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa By Andrew Nash

The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa by Andrew Nash


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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 Dialectical Tradition in South Africa Summary

The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa by Andrew Nash

This book brings into view the most enduring and distinctive philosophical current in South African historyone often obscured or patronized as Afrikaner liberalism. It traces this current of thought from nineteenth-century disputes over Dutch liberal theology through Stellenbosch existentialism to the prison writings of Breyten Breytenbach, and examines related themes in the work of Olive Schreiner, M. K. Gandhi, and Richard Turner. At the core of this tradition is a defence of free speech in its classical sense, as a virtue necessary for a good society, rather than in its modern liberal sense as an individual right. Out of this defence of free speech, conducted in the face of charges of heresy, treason, and immorality, a range of philosophical conceptions developedof the self constituted in dialogue with others, of freedom as transcendence of the given, and of a dialectical movement of consciousness as it is educated through debate and action. This study shows the Socratic commitment to "following the argument where it leads," sustained and developed in the storm and stress of a peculiar modernity.

About Andrew Nash

Andrew Nash is associate professor of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Dutch Republicanism and the Dialectical Tradition Chapter 2: The Politics of Free Enquiry in Colonial South Africa Chapter 3: Wine Farming, Heresy Trials and the Stellenbosch Philosophical Tradition Chapter 4: How Kierkegaard Came to Stellenbosch Chapter 5: Johan Degenaar and the Politics of Oop Gesprek Chapter 6: Breyten Breytenbach as Dialectical Thinker Chapter 7: Marxism and Dialectic, from Sharpeville to the Negotiated Settlement Chapter 8: The New Politics of Afrikaans Notes Index

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NPB9780415975308
9780415975308
0415975301
The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa by Andrew Nash
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2009-06-15
250
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