Author: Norman Duncan, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Murray Hofmeyr, Tamara Shefer, Felix Malunga, Mashudu Mashige
ISBN No: 1-919799-65-6
Cost: 205.20
The papers presented in this text variously engage issues of oppression, repression, and relative deprivation in the context of a multi-cultural society in search of a formula for civilized co-existence and pluralism. They allow the celebration of diversity and the development of shared space by the different cultural, political and economic demographic components of South African society. The philosophical points of departure of the various contributors differ considerably and the issues they address themselves to are equally varied. They include considerations of political representation, ethnic and cultural differences, gender issues, race, class and conflict, pigmentation, art and society, and religious confession. A good number of the chapters are inspired by the philosophical left. There are also a few avowedly Afrocentric ideas represented here. While the philosophical points of departure of the various contributors vary, they share a degree of social engagement and concern for a positive transition to a new society; their message is loud and clear. Collectively, the contributions provide a rich body of discussion, useful for concerned South Africans, the rest of Africa and the wider world.
ISBN No: 1-919799-65-6
Cost: 205.20
The papers presented in this text variously engage issues of oppression, repression, and relative deprivation in the context of a multi-cultural society in search of a formula for civilized co-existence and pluralism. They allow the celebration of diversity and the development of shared space by the different cultural, political and economic demographic components of South African society. The philosophical points of departure of the various contributors differ considerably and the issues they address themselves to are equally varied. They include considerations of political representation, ethnic and cultural differences, gender issues, race, class and conflict, pigmentation, art and society, and religious confession. A good number of the chapters are inspired by the philosophical left. There are also a few avowedly Afrocentric ideas represented here. While the philosophical points of departure of the various contributors vary, they share a degree of social engagement and concern for a positive transition to a new society; their message is loud and clear. Collectively, the contributions provide a rich body of discussion, useful for concerned South Africans, the rest of Africa and the wider world.
