Part Three: Dialogue as a Philosophical Art. From the beginning of his academic career, and probably even before that, Degenaar was...

Invitation to a commemoration In the early years of his appointment as a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch, Johan De

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The implosion of South African Marxism In April 1986, Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff (1986a) introduced a special issue of...

In this talk I will not focus on the current, ongoing struggles of the Kurdish people and the current situation in the Middle East more...

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In his report to the inaugural AGM of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (South Africa) on 20 October 2012, Martin Jansen said that active...

“Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” —Nelson Mandela, International day of solidarity with the...

Peter Laslett’s 1956 introduction to a collection of essays on Philosophy, Politics and Society begins by reflecting on the contemporary...

“Not such a contradiction as all that” Around the time that Breyten Breytenbach became active in revolutionary politics, he also...

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Dialogue Alone: D. C. S. Oosthuizen’s Engagement with Three Philosophical Generations The legacy of D. C. S. Oosthuizen is best...

It is surely something of a paradox to begin a series of seminars on “Lives of South African Philosophers” by discussing a historical...

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Those of us whose memories go back to the insurrectionary years of the mid-1980s—when millions of oppressed people were drawn into...

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‘Intellectual Home of the Left' Universities change constantly, but they do so slowly and haphazardly.[1] It seldom happens that a...

The question of Leninism and democracy has been placed on the agenda today [in 1990] by events in Eastern Europe. The idea that Leninism...