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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...

    Stellenbosse Taalbeleid

    Die Oortjies van die Seekoei Ter gedagtenis van Ampie Coetzee, 1939-2020 Die seekoei en die taalbeleid Waarna ons ookal kyk, sien ons met...

    Degenaar in Dialogue: An Essay in Four Parts Part Four: What Remains?

    Johan Degenaar died on 22 July 2015, at the age of eighty-nine. He had withdrawn from public life a decade or more before. This withdrawal w

    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...

    Political Consciousness from Soweto to Marikana

    Did Marikana change everything? Since the day we first saw images of the police shooting down Marikana mineworkers in August 2012, it seemed

    One Year after the Marikana Massacre

    What happened at Marikana? On 16 August 2012 a tactical response unit of the South African police shot and killed 34 striking workers...

    The Double Lives of South African Marxism

    The implosion of South African Marxism In April 1986, Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff (1986a) introduced a special issue of...

    Zen Communist

    “Not such a contradiction as all that” Around the time that Breyten Breytenbach became active in revolutionary politics, he also...

    ‘n Ander Wêreld Is Moontlik

    Resensie van Breytenbach se Notes from the Middle World In Oktober 1997 het Breyten Breytenbach ‘n merkwaardige lesing ter ere van die...

    Dialogue Alone

    Dialogue Alone: D. C. S. Oosthuizen’s Engagement with Three Philosophical Generations The legacy of D. C. S. Oosthuizen is best...

    Gandhi in South Africa

    It is surely something of a paradox to begin a series of seminars on “Lives of South African Philosophers” by discussing a historical...

    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...

    Contradictions of the New South Africa

    Those of us whose memories go back to the insurrectionary years of the mid-1980s—when millions of oppressed people were drawn into...

    How Revolutionary Consciousness Develops

    In commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Trotsky—that is, in coming together from our varying backgrounds of...

    Leninism and Democracy

    The question of Leninism and democracy has been placed on the agenda today [in 1990] by events in Eastern Europe. The idea that Leninism...

    Marxism, Hegel and the Philosophical Foundations of Social Revolution

    Is Hegel really necessary? This is a question of which Hegel himself was acutely aware. Other philosophers before him, from Greek...
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