Remains of the Social Desiring the Post-Apartheid
van Bever Donker, Maurits
Remains of the Social Desiring the Post-Apartheid - Johannesburg Wits University Press 2017
Open Access
Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as ‘the post-apartheid social’. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of South Africa between 1948 and 1994 and foregrounds the tension between the weight of lived experience that was and is apartheid, the structures that condition that experience and a desire for a ‘post-apartheid social’ (think unity through difference). Collectively, the contributors argue for a recognition of the ‘the post-apartheid’ as a condition that names the labour of coming to terms with the ordering principles that apartheid both set in place and foreclosed. The volume seeks to provide a sense of the terrain on which ‘the post-apartheid’ - as a desire for a difference that is not apartheid’s difference - unfolds, falters and is worked through.
Creative Commons
English
oapen_627442 9781776140381
10.26530/oapen_627442 doi
Social & political philosophy
History Apartheid Empathy Hannah Arendt Nelson Mandela Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud South Africa
Remains of the Social Desiring the Post-Apartheid - Johannesburg Wits University Press 2017
Open Access
Remains of the Social is an interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid; a condition referred to as ‘the post-apartheid social’. The volume grapples with apartheid as a global phenomenon that extends beyond the borders of South Africa between 1948 and 1994 and foregrounds the tension between the weight of lived experience that was and is apartheid, the structures that condition that experience and a desire for a ‘post-apartheid social’ (think unity through difference). Collectively, the contributors argue for a recognition of the ‘the post-apartheid’ as a condition that names the labour of coming to terms with the ordering principles that apartheid both set in place and foreclosed. The volume seeks to provide a sense of the terrain on which ‘the post-apartheid’ - as a desire for a difference that is not apartheid’s difference - unfolds, falters and is worked through.
Creative Commons
English
oapen_627442 9781776140381
10.26530/oapen_627442 doi
Social & political philosophy
History Apartheid Empathy Hannah Arendt Nelson Mandela Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud South Africa