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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Moraliteitskritiek en tragiese bewussyn in die werk van Reiner Schurmann 
    Schoeman, Marinus J. (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2013-09)
    Towards the end of his book Des Hégémonies Brisées which appeared in 1996 (Eng. translation Broken Hegemonies 2003), Reiner Schürmann came to the conclusion that ethics and morals do not belong to (and should be banned ...
  • Neoliberal governmentality, knowledge work, and thumos 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Editura ASE, 2021-11-20)
    Research has shown that the knowledge worker, the decisive driver of the knowledge economy, works increasingly longer hours. In fact, it would appear that instead of working to live, they live to work. There appears to be ...
  • Nietzsche and Arendt in Casterbridge: on the burden of history 
    Mabille, Louise; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2004)
    The article raises the question whether postmodern attempts to re-write history does not, despite its best efforts, fall back into the homogeneity of metanarrative. By doing this, Nietzsche's critique of monumental ...
  • Nietzsche and evolutionary theory 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Botha, Catherine Frances (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    Poststructuralist thinkers tend to emphasise Nietzsche's critical relationship to science, as a result of their scepticism towards scientific discourse in general. Their interpretation of Nietzsche in this regard is ...
  • Nietzsche se beskouings oor die deugde van matigheid en generositeit 
    Schoeman, Marinus J.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2004)
    The concepts of temperance and magnanimity (generosity) play a central role in Nietzsche's ethic, which is basically an ethic of virtue. In his own unique way, and in accordance with his extra-moral view of life, ...
  • Nietzsche, Democracy and Transcendence 
    Van Tongeren, Paul (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2007)
    Socialism, utilitarianism and democracy are, according to Nietzsche, secularised versions of Christianity. They have continued the monomaniac one-sidedness of the Christian idea of what a human being is and should be, and ...
  • Nihilisme en moraal 
    Van Tongeren, Paul (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2013-12)
    The term "nihilism" is often used as an invective to blame a person or a way of thinking. If used in that way there would be a simple opposition between "nihilism and morality". That opposition could maybe point to a ...
  • No-fault unbelief defended : a reply to Roberto Di Ceglie 
    Lougheed, Kirk (Springer, 2021)
    In the philosophy of religion, ‘no-fault unbelief’ represents the view that a person can fail to believe that God exists through no fault of their own. On the other hand, ‘flawed unbelief’ says a person is always culpable ...
  • Nut of gees? Die stand van die geesteswetenskappe in Suid-Afrika 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2012-12)
    This contribution critically considers the findings and recommendations of the report published in 2011 by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) on the state of the humanities in South Africa. The study concludes ...
  • On escaping the seemingly inescapable : reflections on being in Levinas 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2012)
    Like his one-time teacher, Heidegger, Levinas makes a distinction between Being (Sein) and beings (Seiendes), but prefers to speak of ‘existence’ and the ‘existent’. Again, like Heidegger, Levinas understands existence ...