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16Place, Space and Hermeneutics (edited book)Springer. 2017.This book analyzes the hermeneutics of place, raising questions about central issues such as textuality, dialogue, and play. It discusses the central figures in the development of hermeneutics and place, and surveys disciplines and areas in which a hermeneutic approach to place has been fruitful. It covers the range of philosophical hermeneutic theory, both within philosophy itself as well as from other disciplines. In doing so, the volume reflects the state of theorization on these issues, and …Read more
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36Shame and SilenceSouth African Journal of Philosophy 30 (4): 462-471. 2011.Samantha Vice’s proposal on how to live in ‘this strange place’ of contemporary South Africa, includes an appeal to the concepts of shame and silence. In this paper, I use Emmanuel Levinas and Giorgio Agamben to move the discussion of shame from a moral to an existential question. The issue is not about how one should feel, but about the kind of self that whiteness in South Africa makes possible today. Shame desubjectifies. Vice’s recommendation of silence is then taken as witnessing/listening, …Read more
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143Reason and rationality in Eze's on reasonSouth African Journal of Philosophy 27 (4): 296-309. 2008.The title of Emmanuel Eze’s final, posthumously published book uses the words “reason” and “rationality” in a manner that might suggest they are interchangeable. I would like to suggest that we not treat them as the same, but rather tease out a difference in emphasis and reference between the two. In African philosophy, the problem of reason is really two separate problems, the first of which I will call the “problem of reason” (that is, the question of whether there are diverse forms of reason …Read more
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7Here is the Florida website for Bill 0837 Full text of the bill, Web, pdf Tallahassee Democrat stories on Bill 0837: Council approves 'academic freedom' (April 20, 2005) 'Academic freedom' bill dead - but not forgotten (April 21, 2005) Rep. Dennis K. Baxley, Ocala (sponsor of Bill 0837).
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Instrumentalization in Universities and the Creative Potential of RaceIn Pedro Tabensky Sally Mathews (ed.), Being At ‘Home’: Race, Institutional Culture and Transformation at South African Higher Education Institutions, University of Kwazulu-natal Press. forthcoming.
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13Spirituality and Human Nature Donald Evans Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 1993, x + 314 pp (review)Dialogue 34 (2): 406-. 1995.
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85Paulin Hountondji, 'African Philosophy, Myth and Reality' (1974)Philosophical Papers 39 (1): 117-134. 2010.This Article does not have an abstract
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The Territory Is Not the Map: Deleuze and Guattari's Relevance to the Concept of Place in African PhilosophyPhilosophy Today 45 (5): 388-400. 2001.
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18African philosophyIn C. Boundas (ed.), Companion to 20th Century Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. 2008.(C. Boundas, ed., Companion to 20th Century Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2007).
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