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  • Is Protagoras' moral relativism unavoidable today? 
    Antonites, Alex J.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
  • Is there any evidence for hell in the Ifá Iiterary corpus? 
    Ofuasia, Emmanuel (MDPI, 2023-11)
    Recent scholarship on Yorùbá theology that has tried to model it after the Abrahamic monotheisms as the distinction between Ọ̀run rere (Heaven) and Ọ̀run àpáàdì (Hell) is now replete but has not, before now, commanded ...
  • Is ‘Africa’ a racial slur and should the continent be renamed? 
    Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke; Egbai, Uti O. (Routledge, 2024)
    In this paper, we will investigate whether or not the name ‘Africa’ can be seen as a slur. Since the name was given by European exploiters, slavers and colonists, it raises the question of whether such a name should continue ...
  • "Isn't art an activity that gives things a face?" Levinas on the power of art 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Kuleuven, 2007-09)
    French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's thinking on art goes to the very heart of the debate concerning the possibility of "thinking (or expressing/expressive) pictures". Knowing whether or not art can give things a face ...
  • Khawuleza-an instantiation of the Black Archive 
    Kumalo, S.H. (Siseko) (Unisa Press, 2020-08)
    South African history is such that Blackness/Indigeneity were excluded from institutions of knowledge production. Contemporarily, the traditional University is defined as an institution predicated on the abjection of ...
  • Knowledge work compulsion : the neoliberal mediation of working existence in the network society 
    Hofmeyr, A.B. (Augusta Benda) (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)
    This contribution seeks to understand the pervasive phenomenon of work compulsion among knowledge workers in our present network society. Knowledge workers not only have to work all the time from anywhere, but they also ...
  • Knowledge work in the age of control : capitalising on human capital 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (University of the Free State, 2022-07-31)
    The main claim that I aim to substantiate in this article is that power in the form of control is exerted in a more insidious manner now that knowledge work has become ‘networked’. To this end, I first describe societal ...
  • Kritiese opmerkings oor ons tyd en sommige van sy gevaarlikste illusies 
    Schoeman, Marinus J. (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2017-03)
    In the first part, this article explores an important phenomenon of our time, i.e. the resurgence of revolutionary liberation movements. Basically, all revolutionary movements since the 18th century rest on at least two ...
  • Levinas and the possibility of dialogue with "Strangers" 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Routledge, 2016-03)
    This programmatic essay explores some of the challenges that a seemingly quintessential European or Continental philosopher such as Levinas faces when his thought on alterity and on the responsibility we bear towards the ...
  • Liberale welsynstaat – demokrasie of meritokrasie? 
    Schoeman, Marinus J. (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2010-03)
    Pogings om die liberale welsynstaat te hervorm skyn futiel te wees. Wat nodig is, is ’n afskeid van die terapeutiese model en ’n rehabilitasie van die gemeenskap-gesentreerde benadering. Kliënte van die dienste-industrie ...
  • Liefs nie op straat nie. Die openbare rol van die intellektueel vandag 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (LitNet, 2009-03)
    In this paper I attempt to contextualise the question regarding the public role of the academic as intellectual in terms of the present global, neo-liberal "govern-mentality". With the aid of thinkers such as Bourdieu, ...
  • Lojale verset : gedateerd of aktueel? NP van Wyk Louw in gesprek met Foucault 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2020-06)
    In hierdie essay voer ek aan dat NP van Wyk Louw se 1939-konsep van "lojale verset", 'n konsep gemobiliseer in die naam van Afrikanernasionalisme, desnieteenstaande sy kritiese slaankrag vir ons tyd behou as ons dit deur ...
  • Love as the foundation of Ubuntu 
    Tshivhase, Mpho (Croatian Philosophical Society, 2018)
    Ubuntu is widely understood as a moral theory with a scope that is wide enough to explain what counts as the right kind of human behaviour as well as what it means to be a person. Understood in its basic form, Ubuntu is ...
  • “Ma, kan Ma dan nie sien dat ek aan die brand is nie?” Enkele opmerkings oor wat ons vandag is 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2017-03)
    The current national crisis in Higher Education in South Africa, set against the backdrop of a corrupt national government incapable of providing any leadership in this regard, compels philosophers to undertake an incisive ...
  • Mbembe at the Lekgotla of Foucault’s self-styling and African identity 
    Tembo, Josias (Unisa Press, 2018)
    Achille Mbembe’s article “African Modes of Self-Writing” (2001), which is a precursor to his book On the Postcolony (2001), challenges essentialist conceptions of African identity and their theoretical and political ...
  • Meaning and medicine : an underexplored bioethical value 
    Metz, Thaddeus (Springer, 2021-12)
    DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM : Since the origin of bioethics as a discipline, the field has been dominated by consideration of two main values, well-being and morality. I cast doubt on whether those are sufficient to resolve ...
  • The meanings of God : reply to four critics 
    Metz, Thaddeus (Routledge, 2021)
    In this article, I briefly reply to four critics who have critically engaged with my book God, Soul and the Meaning of Life in a special issue of the International Journal of Philosophy and Theology. I view them mainly as ...
  • Mediologie en hermeneutiek 
    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 ...
  • Meta-physics of Foucault's ethics : succeeding where Levinas fails 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2006)
    This essay aims to critically assess the later Foucault's ethical turn by using Levinas's ethical metaphysics as critical yardstick. Foucault's notion of ethical subjectivity constitutes a site of resistance against ...
  • Moderate communitarianism and the prospect of an African political philosophy of needs 
    Sanni, John Sodiq (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2022)
    The social, cultural and economic history of Africa informs the various political narratives on the continent. Among these narratives birthing various intellectual discourses are the questions of personhood and communitarianism, ...