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Wolff, Ernst (Historical Association of South Africa, 2006-05)This article explores the support of the "Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika" (NHKA) for the ideology of apartheid. Official documents of this church are examined within the framework of changing accents in Afrikaner ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Unisa Press, 2007)Emmanuel Levinas was born one hundred years ago and today his work in philosophy as well as his Talmudic readings enjoys increasing attention in research in philosophy, literature, science of religion, theology and other ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Taylor & Francis and NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2016-11)This article explores current issues in South African philosophy curriculum design. Four questions are considered, each followed by a supplementary note. Firstly, the place of philosophy from other traditions, particularly ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Sage, 2006-07)This article investigates the importance of the evolution of Adorno's interpretation of Husserl for the formation of his own philosophy. The weakness of Husserl's notion of immediate data is revealed within the light of ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2000)Having described Marcel's biography and the character of his thought, Part 2 of this essay continues by expounding the main themes of his philosophy. Firstly the nature and limits of human thought in relation to existence ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2000)This essay gives an introduction to Gabriel Marcel that focuses on his approach to God. The biography of Marcel's life is sketched as the contingent origin and setting of his work. It is indicated where and how his life ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Unisa Press, 2007)In this paper I would like to present the work of Emmanuel Levinas and at the same time provide some clarity on the relation between his philosophy and Jewish thought. After a brief biographical and intellectual orientation, ...
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Murray, Montagu; Wolff, Ernst (Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2015-12)In this article the authors, a philosopher and a social development practitioner, formulate recommendations for responsible planning of technical interventions in health care relations under circumstances of uncertainty ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2014)This paper argues for the way in which the hermeneutics of human acti on (in particular the technical dimension of action) and the capabilities approach are to be coordinated in judgements regarding the happy life or ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2006-12)This essay will present a few challenges to a new Humanism from the perspective of the sociology of technics. For this purpose Humanism will be described as an effort to intervene in the process of human formation or ...
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Wolff, Ernst (South African Academy for Science and Arts, 2007-03)ENGLISH: Mediology, founded by Régis Debray, is a new science that sets itself the goal of understanding how ideas are transmitted and become effective. It clearly stands in close relationship to hermeneutics, but this ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2006)The aesthetic nature of food and cooking is a neglected field in philosophical aesthetics. This neglect is due, among others, to the intellectual perspective on art and the anthropological dualism characteristic of modernism. ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2011)In this review article the first comprehensive interpretation of Martin Verfeld’s Pots and Poetry is presented. The nature of the philosopher’s discursive practice is presented with reference to his other work. It is ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Berghahn Books, 2013-06)This aim of this article is to contribute to the debates regarding the condition and reform of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). First, focussing on South Africa and the Humanities Charter in particular, the ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Cambridge University Press, 2009)The aim of this two-part article is to develop a non-foundational re-reading of Jonas’ ethics. In Part 1 the argument is situated within Jonas’s concern with and understanding of nihilism. In order to delineate the proposed ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Cambridge University Press, 2009)This essay aims at clarifying the content of Jonas’s philosophy of responsibility. First, an analysis is given of the connection between nihilism and modern technology. Jonas’s contribution to the problem of ethics in ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Sage, 2015)The aim of this article is to present a perspective on Ricœur's ethico-political thought in Course of Recognition and, by extension, on that of his entire work. The point of departure is the hypothesis that Ricœur's ...
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Wolff, Ernst (Etudes Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, 2014-02)Le but de cet article est de mettre en dialogue Ricoeur avec la théorie sociale d’Anthony Giddens, plus spécifiquement l’herméneutique de l’homme capable avec la théorie de la structuration. Nous commencerons par explorer ...
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Wolff, Ernst (LitNet, 2010-08)In hierdie artikel word ’n interpretasie van Martin Versfeld se vroeë boek, Oor gode en afgode (1948), aangebied. Die doel van die artikel is om die belangrikste deurlopende argumente van die vyf afsonderlike opstelle ...
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Wolff, Ernst (The Verloren van Themaat Centre for Public Law Studies, UNISA, 2009)The aim of this article is to formulate a credible interpretation of what Levinas' general perspective would have been on the State and politics in the current post-colonial, global order - a context about which he wrote ...
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