Leonhard Praeg
Biographic Data
| ID | 136534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonhard Praeg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonhard |
| FAMILY NAME | Praeg |
| SIGNATURE | PRAEG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Essential building blocks of the Ubuntu debate; or
This article is in part a response to Matolino and Kwindingwi’s “The end of Ubuntu” and Metz’s response “Just the beginning for ubuntu: reply to Matolino and Kwindingwi”, both of which appeared in the South African Journal of Philosophy. My contribution also stands alone as an outline of the basic minimum of conceptual moves any Ubuntu theorist has to make in order for their text to avoid the twin seductions of being either a contemporary variant…
Philosophy, and teaching (as) transformation
This paper explores a paradox constitutive of transformation discourse in South Africa: the transformation of a fragmented society presupposes the existence of a collective Will; but the creation of a collective will can only result from a process of transformation. While politicians and higher education administrators debate how best to conceive and implement transformation, committed lecturers have to find ways of teaching the reality of that i…
Sexual Violence
In the three decades since French theorist René Girard first published his 'Violence and the Sacred' (1977) his insights into the nature of collective violence have made substantial contributions to a number of disciplines, including literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology, psychology, philosophy and political theory. With the exception of a few texts, his theory has not seen many applications in the (post-colonial) African context. This…
Of Evil and Other Figures of the Liminal
Inspired by research on the Rwanda genocide and the decapitation, in July 2008, of a passenger on a Canadian Greyhound bus, this occasional paper explores the shared agitation with which we may respond to two seemingly disparate instances of evil such as these. Arguing against discontinuous claims that distinguish between pre- and post-metaphysical conceptions of evil pivoting around the figure of Kant, the article identifies three logics suggest…
The Aporia of Collective Violence
An Answer to the Question
First circumscriptionAn abstract, like the introduction, stands in a problematic relationship to the text. Written last but read first, it seeks to capture the essence of a text or at least, to draw the reader’s attention to main and supportive arguments. But arguments don’t necessarily unfold in terms of premises and conclusions, supportive and main arguments. When they don’t, the idea of prefacing a text with an abstract and introduction become…
Teaching as Justice
The notion of ‘excellence’ has emerged as the contemporary telos of higher education. But, as Readings argues in The University in Ruins, excellence is a vacuous idea which is a function of a globalising, neo-liberal discourse. The way this discourse has infiltrated the corporatised university signals the severance of the intimate relation between university and nation-state in which the former historically functioned as production facility for t…
Berta Smit
Vertaling is reeds die ver‐andering van wat herhaal word”. Introduction: the contribution of postmodernism to intercultural communication; the question of the other/self is the interrogation of history by its effect; Juffrou Sophia: is the name interrogating her self as historical construct; History (I): Die Stem: as untranslatable a meaning as the auto‐colonisation that marked the reply to “the call”; ’Us” and “Them”: are, effects of this dialog…
Essential building blocks of the Ubuntu debate; or
This article is in part a response to Matolino and Kwindingwi’s “The end of Ubuntu” and Metz’s response “Just the beginning for ubuntu: reply to Matolino and Kwindingwi”, both of which appeared in the South African Journal of Philosophy. My contribution also stands alone as an outline of the basic minimum of conceptual moves any Ubuntu theorist has to make in order for their text to avoid the twin seductions of being either a contemporary variant…
An Answer to the Question
First circumscriptionAn abstract, like the introduction, stands in a problematic relationship to the text. Written last but read first, it seeks to capture the essence of a text or at least, to draw the reader’s attention to main and supportive arguments. But arguments don’t necessarily unfold in terms of premises and conclusions, supportive and main arguments. When they don’t, the idea of prefacing a text with an abstract and introduction become…
The Aporia of Collective Violence
Sexual Violence
In the three decades since French theorist René Girard first published his 'Violence and the Sacred' (1977) his insights into the nature of collective violence have made substantial contributions to a number of disciplines, including literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology, psychology, philosophy and political theory. With the exception of a few texts, his theory has not seen many applications in the (post-colonial) African context. This…
Of Evil and Other Figures of the Liminal
Inspired by research on the Rwanda genocide and the decapitation, in July 2008, of a passenger on a Canadian Greyhound bus, this occasional paper explores the shared agitation with which we may respond to two seemingly disparate instances of evil such as these. Arguing against discontinuous claims that distinguish between pre- and post-metaphysical conceptions of evil pivoting around the figure of Kant, the article identifies three logics suggest…
Teaching as Justice
The notion of ‘excellence’ has emerged as the contemporary telos of higher education. But, as Readings argues in The University in Ruins, excellence is a vacuous idea which is a function of a globalising, neo-liberal discourse. The way this discourse has infiltrated the corporatised university signals the severance of the intimate relation between university and nation-state in which the former historically functioned as production facility for t…
Berta Smit
Vertaling is reeds die ver‐andering van wat herhaal word”. Introduction: the contribution of postmodernism to intercultural communication; the question of the other/self is the interrogation of history by its effect; Juffrou Sophia: is the name interrogating her self as historical construct; History (I): Die Stem: as untranslatable a meaning as the auto‐colonisation that marked the reply to “the call”; ’Us” and “Them”: are, effects of this dialog…
Teaching as Justice
The notion of ‘excellence’ has emerged as the contemporary telos of higher education. But, as Readings argues in The University in Ruins, excellence is a vacuous idea which is a function of a globalising, neo-liberal discourse. The way this discourse has infiltrated the corporatised university signals the severance of the intimate relation between university and nation-state in which the former historically functioned as production facility for t…
The Aporia of Collective Violence
An Answer to the Question
First circumscriptionAn abstract, like the introduction, stands in a problematic relationship to the text. Written last but read first, it seeks to capture the essence of a text or at least, to draw the reader’s attention to main and supportive arguments. But arguments don’t necessarily unfold in terms of premises and conclusions, supportive and main arguments. When they don’t, the idea of prefacing a text with an abstract and introduction become…
Of Evil and Other Figures of the Liminal
Inspired by research on the Rwanda genocide and the decapitation, in July 2008, of a passenger on a Canadian Greyhound bus, this occasional paper explores the shared agitation with which we may respond to two seemingly disparate instances of evil such as these. Arguing against discontinuous claims that distinguish between pre- and post-metaphysical conceptions of evil pivoting around the figure of Kant, the article identifies three logics suggest…
Philosophy, and teaching (as) transformation
This paper explores a paradox constitutive of transformation discourse in South Africa: the transformation of a fragmented society presupposes the existence of a collective Will; but the creation of a collective will can only result from a process of transformation. While politicians and higher education administrators debate how best to conceive and implement transformation, committed lecturers have to find ways of teaching the reality of that i…
Sexual Violence
In the three decades since French theorist René Girard first published his 'Violence and the Sacred' (1977) his insights into the nature of collective violence have made substantial contributions to a number of disciplines, including literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology, psychology, philosophy and political theory. With the exception of a few texts, his theory has not seen many applications in the (post-colonial) African context. This…
Essential building blocks of the Ubuntu debate; or
This article is in part a response to Matolino and Kwindingwi’s “The end of Ubuntu” and Metz’s response “Just the beginning for ubuntu: reply to Matolino and Kwindingwi”, both of which appeared in the South African Journal of Philosophy. My contribution also stands alone as an outline of the basic minimum of conceptual moves any Ubuntu theorist has to make in order for their text to avoid the twin seductions of being either a contemporary variant…
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (2 works)