Race And Reconciliation
Essays From The New South Africa
A meditation on the lessons to be learned from South Africa’s transformation in the wake of apartheid
260 Pages, 6 x 9 in
- Paperback
- 9780816641086
- Published: October 30, 2003
- Series: Public Worlds
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Race And Reconciliation
Essays From The New South Africa
Series: Public Worlds
ISBN: 9780816641086
Publication date: October 30th, 2003
260 Pages
9 x 5
A meditation on the lessons to be learned from South Africa’s transformation in the wake of apartheid
Justice, truth, and identity; race, society, and law—all come into dramatic play as South Africa makes the tumultuous transition to a post-apartheid democracy. Seeking the timeless through the timely and trying to find the deeper meaning in the sweep of events, Daniel Herwitz brings the vast resources of the philosophical essay to bear on the new realities of post-apartheid South Africa—from racial identity to truth commissions, from architecture to film and television.
A public intellectual’s reflections on public life, Herwitz’s essays question how the new South Africa has constructed its concepts of reconciliation and return and how its historical emergence has meant a rethinking, reimagining, reexperiencing, relabeling, and repoliticizing of race. Herwitz’s purpose is to give a philosophical reading of society—a society already relying on implicitly philosophical concepts in its social and political agendas. Working through these concepts, testing their relevance for reading society, his book itself becomes a part of the politics of definition and description in the new South Africa.
Daniel Herwitz is director of the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, and holds professorships in philosophy, history of art, and in the school of art and design. He taught at the University of Natal in South Africa from 1996 to 2002.
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