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    Clearing a Path to Academia

    A Tribute to Lungisile Ntsebeza Light heart and strong commitment Lungisile Ntsebeza’s commitment to his chosen path of intellectual...

    Degenaar in Dialogue: An Essay in Four Parts Part Three: Dialogue as a Philosophical Art

    Part Three: Dialogue as a Philosophical Art. From the beginning of his academic career, and probably even before that, Degenaar was...

    Degenaar in Dialogue: An Essay in Four Parts Part Two: Challenged to Conform

    Invitation to a commemoration In the early years of his appointment as a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch, Johan De

    Degenaar in Dialogue: An Essay in Four Parts Part One: Apprentice Philosopher

    The master burglar and his apprentice There is an ancient Chinese story of a young man who approaches his father, a master burglar, and ask

    Ways of Contradiction

    1. Dialectic as the movement of contradiction In dialectical thought, definitions are often a problem. Definitions imply that terms have a

    Remembering Peter Hudson

    I met Peter Hudson in 1986, at a conference at the University of Natal in Durban. We knew of each other by then, although we had not met...

    Ancient Cultures and Modern States

    In this talk I will not focus on the current, ongoing struggles of the Kurdish people and the current situation in the Middle East more...

    Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism Revisited

    The Mediterranean in Global Context Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea was—as its name suggests—the centre of the world. It was..

    The Philosopher’s Cold War

    Peter Laslett’s 1956 introduction to a collection of essays on Philosophy, Politics and Society begins by reflecting on the contemporary...

    Third Worldism

    Third Worldism and Internationalism The theory and practice of socialist internationalism has gone through several transmutations since...

    The New Politics of Afrikaans

    Wat Verby Is, Is Verby: Afrikaners and Reconciliation One of the main themes of Nelson Mandela’s presidency was that of reconciliation...
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