Martin Versfeld

Author : Ernst Wolff
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789462702974

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Martin Versfeld by Ernst Wolff Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Mitchell
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042021105

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Hidden Mutualities by Michael Mitchell Pdf

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.

Author : Philippe Denis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004320017

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The Dominican Friars in Southern Africa by Philippe Denis Pdf

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.

Author : David Bevington,Eric Rasmussen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993-05-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0719016436

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Doctor Faustus by David Bevington,Eric Rasmussen Pdf

This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments.

Author : ATF Press
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781925872729

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The Bonhoeffer Legacy by ATF Press Pdf

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.

Author : Martin Versfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1869193717

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Our Selves by Martin Versfeld Pdf

A collection of some of South African philosopher Martin Versfeld's most interesting essays.

Author : William Sweet
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780776620312

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Migrating Texts and Traditions by William Sweet Pdf

Examining the phenomenon of the ‘migration’ of philosophical texts and traditions between cultures.

Author : Andrew Nash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135227739

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The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa by Andrew Nash Pdf

This book brings into view the most enduring and distinctive philosophical current in South African history—one 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 developed—of 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.

Author : Kenneth C. Holmes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107147379

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Aaron Klug - A Long Way from Durban by Kenneth C. Holmes Pdf

The life and work of Aaron Klug, Nobel prize winner and one of the pioneers of structural molecular biology.

Author : Edwin Etieyibo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351336154

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Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum by Edwin Etieyibo Pdf

This book, appropriately titled Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum, signposts and captures issues about philosophy, the philosophy curriculum, and its decolonisation and Africanisation. This topic is of critical importance at present for the discipline of philosophy, not the least because philosophy and the current philosophical canons are perceived to be improvised by virtue of their historical marginalisation and exclusion of other valuable and important philosophical traditions and perspectives. The continued marginalisation and exclusion of one such philosophical tradition and perspective, i.e. African philosophy connects to issues of space contestations and raise questions of justice. The chapters in this book engage with all of these issues, and they also attempt to make sense of what it will mean for philosophy and the philosophy curriculum to be decolonised and Africanised; how to go about achieving this task; and what the challenges and problems are that confront efforts to decolonise and Africanise the philosophy curriculum. Furthermore, the contributors initiate discussions on the value and importance of non-western philosophical traditions and perspectives, and by so doing challenge the dormant and triumphant narrative and hegemony of Western philosophy, as well as the centrality accorded to it in philosophical discourse. The chapters in this book were originally published as articles in the South African Journal of Philosophy.

Author : John W. De Gruchy
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800638247

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Confessions of a Christian Humanist by John W. De Gruchy Pdf

How can one genuinely follow Jesus today, and what does that mean about one's lifestyle, social and political commitments, and ethical stance? In this fine work, internationally renowned theologian John de Gruchy answers that question. Reviving an almost silenced tradition, he lifts the banner of Christian humanism - not secular humanism with a Christian veneer, but a critical retrieval of Christianity's core convictions and values in ways that are both critical of and yet constructively engaged with secular culture in serving the well-being of humanity.

Author : Birgit Weyel,Wilhelm Gräb,Emmanuel Lartey,Cas Wepener
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110618150

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International Handbook of Practical Theology by Birgit Weyel,Wilhelm Gräb,Emmanuel Lartey,Cas Wepener Pdf

Practical theology has outgrown its traditional pastoral paradigm. The articles in this handbook recognize that religion, spirituality, lived religion on this side and beyond institutional communities refer to realms of cultures, ritual practices, and symbolic orders whose boundaries are not clearly defined and whose contents are shifting. The Handbook of Practical Theology offers insightful transcultural conceptions of religion and religious affairs collected from various cultures and religions. The first section presents ‘concepts of religion’. Chapters include considerations of the conceptualizing of religion in the fields of 'anthropology', 'community', 'family', 'institution', 'law', 'media', and 'politics' among others. The second section is dedicated to case studies of ‘religious practices’ from the perspective of their actors. The third section presents the main theoretical discourses that map the globally significant diversity and multiplicity of religion. Altogether, fifty-eight authors from different parts of the world encourage a rethinking of religious practice in an expanded, transcultural, globalized, and postcolonial world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Law Publisher CC
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Commercial Law Reports 2014 by Anonim Pdf

Commercial law judgments, South Africa

Author : Martin Versfeld
Publisher : No Exit Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cookery / Philosophy
ISBN : 1842432362

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Philosopher's Cookbook by Martin Versfeld Pdf

For Martin Versfeld cooking is neither a chore nor a lifestyle embellishment, it is an encounter with the mystery that lives at the heart of ordinary things. With humour and gentleness, from the delights of the garden to the tyranny of convenience food, Versfeld's recipes have more of the poet about them than the instructor. A compelling read, Versfeld's simplicity and heart is a joy for all readers: this title is a cookbook, a philosophical enquiry and an essay on the human predicament all at once.

Author : United States. Joint Publications Research Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120102798

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Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa by United States. Joint Publications Research Service Pdf