{"product_id":"ubuntu-and-the-reconstitution-of-community-9780253042118","title":"Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUbuntu\u003c\/i\u003e is premised on the ethical belief that an individual's humanity is fostered in a network of human relationships: I am because you are; we are because you are. The essays in this lively volume elevate the debate about ubuntu beyond the buzzword it has become, especially within South African religious and political contexts. The seasoned scholars and younger voices gathered here grapple with a range of challenges that ubuntu puts forward. They break down its history and analyze its intellectual surroundings in African philosophical traditions, European modernism, religious contexts, and human rights discourses. The discussion embraces questions about what it means to be human and to be a part of a community, giving attention to moments of loss and fragmentation in postcolonial modernity, to come to a more meaningful definition of belonging in a globalizing world. Taken together, these essays offer a rich understanding of ubuntu in all of its complexity and reflect on a value system rooted in the everyday practices of ordinary people in their daily encounters with churches, schools, and other social institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna-Marie de Beer is a lecturer in French and Francophone studies at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnifier Dyer is a Research Assistant with the Centre for the Advancement for Scholarship at the University of Pretoria and is an MA\/PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin Madison.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnke Graness is Elise Richter Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna (Austria), and project leader of a FWF-funded research project on the History of Philosophy in Africa at the University of Vienna. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDas menschliche Minimum. Globale Gerechtigkeit aus afrikanischer Sicht: Henry Odera Oruka\u003c\/i\u003e. She is editor (with K. Kresse) of \u003ci\u003eSagacious Reasoning: H. Odera Oruka\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ein memoriam\u003c\/i\u003e and editor (with F. Gmainer-Pranzl) of \u003ci\u003ePerspektiven interkulturellen Philosophierens. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Methodik von Polylogen\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDirk J. Louw teaches African Philosophy, Applied Ethics and Philosophical Counselling in the Department of Philosophy of Stellenbosch University (South Africa). He is also a clinical psychologist and former editor of the \u003ci\u003eSouth African Journal of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eD. A. Masolo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. Masolo is author of \u003ci\u003eSelf and Community in a Changing World\u003c\/i\u003e (a finalist for the Melville Herskovts Award for the Best Scholarly book published on\/about Africa in the English language in the year) and \u003ci\u003eAfrican Philosophy in Search of Identity\u003c\/i\u003e. He is editor (with Ivan Karp) of \u003ci\u003eAfrican Philosophy as\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCultural Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAloo Osotsi Mojola is a professor of philosophy and translation studies at St Paul's University, Limuru, Kenya and an honorary professor as well as research associate, Faculty of Theology, Pretoria University, South Africa. He is author of \u003ci\u003eGod Speaks In Our Own Languages: Bible Translation in East Africa 1844-1998\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriare Nyarwath is a Senior Lecturer of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya. He is author of \u003ci\u003eTraditional Logic: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Ogude\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a Senior Research Fellow and the Director at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eUntil his recent appointment he was a Professor of African Literature and Cultures in the School of Literature, Language and Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, serving as the Head of African Literature and also Assistant Dean - Research, in the Faculty of Humanities. He is author of \u003ci\u003eNgugi's Novels and African History: Narrating the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e and he has co-edited a total of four books and one anthology of African stories, including most recently \u003ci\u003eRethinking Eastern African Literary and Intellectual Landscapes.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBhekizizwe Peterson is a professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and a director of Natives At Large Film and Television Production Company. His publications include \u003ci\u003eMissionaries and African Intellectuals: African Theatre and the Unmaking of Colonial Marginality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZulu Love Letter: A Screenplay \u003c\/i\u003eand (with Janet Remmington and Brian Willan) \u003ci\u003eSol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the writer and\/or producer of internationally acclaimed films including \u003ci\u003eFools\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZulu Love Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003ci\u003eZwelidumile \u003c\/i\u003e(all directed by Ramadan Suleman) and \u003ci\u003eBorn into Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Battle for Johannesburg\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMiners Shot Down \u003c\/i\u003e(all directed by Rehad Desai). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAugustine Shutte was an Honorary Research Associate in the Philosophy Department of the University of Cape Town. He was author of \u003ci\u003eUbuntu: An Ethics for a New South Afric\u003c\/i\u003ea. Dr. Shutte passed on in 2016.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNiels Weidtmann is Director of the interdisciplinary institute Forum Scientiarum at the University of Tübingen. His research interests are in intercultural philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, anthropology, and the philosophy of science. 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