Daniel Herwitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 308373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Herwitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Herwitz |
| SIGNATURE | HERWITZ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4374-7206 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Iconoclastic Dinner Table: Judy Chicago’s "Dinner Party" and Academic Cultural Politics
American identity politics in art and the university arise in the wake of the social movements of the 1960s and focus on solidarity for marginalized groups, along with the critique of the representations which have served to marginalize them. This article bookends the rise of American cultural politics with Judy Chicago’s "Dinner Party" and Linda Nochlin’s academic feminism in art history, then turns to the right-wing reaction of offense at icono…
Negotiating Offence of Fallist Proportion: Cecil Rhodes and the Removal of University of Cape Town’s Statue
The removal of the statue of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town in 2015, prompted by the student Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) campaign, represents a window into how questions of race, art and inequality intertwined as they played out some twenty-five years into South African democracy. Since RMF then turned to the artwork exhibited at University of Cape Town, finding in it a collectively degraded vision of blackness − even though much of it wa…
The jagged past
The Politics of Heritage in Africa: Economies, Histories, and Infrastructures
Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government administration, a library for traditionalists and a marketable source of value for cultural entrepreneurs. The Politics of Heritage in Africa draws together disp…
Monument, Ruin, and Redress in South African Heritage
Apartheid ended in 1991, but its monuments were still standing. And so the question for the new government, brought to power in the first democratic elections in South African history (1994), was: What to do with them? Around these monuments had been generated powerful communalizing energies for the National Party, itself a cruel phoenix arisen from the ruination of the Afrikaner peoples in the Boer War; their devaluing of African culture had bee…
Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy
Aesthetics is the branch of philosophical thought that arises from deep engagement with the arts. It is about larger issues such as meaning, identity, and medium that arise in the exploration of art, music, film and literature. Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy offers a thorough, lucid and stimulating account of the central theories and ideas encountered in aesthetics. The text is thematically structured, covering the discipline's principal …
The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera
Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. The Don Giovanni Moment is the first book to examine the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the n…
Maqbool Fida Husain: The Artist as India’s National Hero
In 1947, the year of India’s independence, Maqbool F Husain, Sayed H Raza, Francis Newton Souza, Ara, Bakre and Gade, associated with Chavda, Hebbar and, later, Ram Kumar, formed themselves into th
Sida, savoir et réinvention de la société civile en Afrique du Sud
Cet article attribue la prise de position du président Mbeki sur la question du VIH-Sida - en particulier son rejet de la thérapie antirétroviral - à une combinaison de facteurs politiques et idéologiques. Outre les considérations budgétaires, qui ont pesé de manière centrale, entraient également en compte la politique d'indigénéité et un refus postcolonial de ce qui est perçu comme une domination de la science et du capitalisme occidentaux (via …
The Future of the Past in South Africa: On the Legacy of the TRC
Daniel Herwitz The Future of the Past in South Africa: On the Legacy of the TRC V O L U M E 5 OF THE SO U TH A F R IC A N TR U TH A N D R E C O N C IL IA T IO N commission report contains a list of all the victims of gross human rights violations whose names appeared in the commission’s database at that time (August 30,1998).' The list is arranged in three columns and is nearly 100 pages long. It is a factual compendium, for the archive, in keepi…
Reclaiming the Past and Early Modern Indian Art
Comedies of Mastery and Reconciliation
Francis Fukuyama and the End of History
Francis Fukuyama has argued that history has come to an end. His argument is a philosophical reading of history which derives philosophical implications from empirical views about human economy, society, recent history and the human conditions for self-realization and flourishing. It is this movement between empirical description and philosophical conceptualization that my paper explores, a movement which is both fascinating and problematical. Th…
Afro‐Medici: The language of Thabo Mbeki's African renaissance
Postmodernists of the south: An essay in philosophical journalism
What is at stake in producing philosophical thinking in the southern hemisphere—specifically in South Africa—which would critically address the whirl of representations and events of contemporary life? Since some of these events appear to totter on the brink of the term ‘postmodern’, an exploration of the relevance of that concept—better, that family of related concepts—to the South African scene must be part of the task. Postmodernism must be co…
Bringing diversity to conversation
At Home Only in Negation
Daniel Herwitz reviews: Adorno, Theodor W. Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, translated by Henry Pickford (New York: Columbia Press, 1998). Suzanne Berry reviews: Lötter, Hennie. Injustice, Violence and Peace. The Case of South Africa (Amsterdam & Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 1997). Roger Deacon reviews: Gramsci, Antonio. Prison Notebooks, Volume II, edited and translated by Joseph E. Buttigieg (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996…
Neo-Natal: On Thinking New Times Philosophically
This is a paper about what it means to be early. Philosophy has been early from the moment of its inception in the west. Socrates was the first to have been ‘ahead of his time’. Thinking of himself under the sign of a midwife, he believed himself to be stamped with the project of giving birth to a new form of thinking which would in the first instance be critical of existing templates of thought and in the second grasp the essentially experimenta…
The Security of the Obvious: On John Cage's Musical Radicalism
Monument, Ruin, and Redress in South African Heritage
Apartheid ended in 1991, but its monuments were still standing. And so the question for the new government, brought to power in the first democratic elections in South African history (1994), was: What to do with them? Around these monuments had been generated powerful communalizing energies for the National Party, itself a cruel phoenix arisen from the ruination of the Afrikaner peoples in the Boer War; their devaluing of African culture had bee…
Maqbool Fida Husain: The Artist as India’s National Hero
In 1947, the year of India’s independence, Maqbool F Husain, Sayed H Raza, Francis Newton Souza, Ara, Bakre and Gade, associated with Chavda, Hebbar and, later, Ram Kumar, formed themselves into th
The Future of the Past in South Africa: On the Legacy of the TRC
Daniel Herwitz The Future of the Past in South Africa: On the Legacy of the TRC V O L U M E 5 OF THE SO U TH A F R IC A N TR U TH A N D R E C O N C IL IA T IO N commission report contains a list of all the victims of gross human rights violations whose names appeared in the commission’s database at that time (August 30,1998).' The list is arranged in three columns and is nearly 100 pages long. It is a factual compendium, for the archive, in keepi…
Postmodernists of the south: An essay in philosophical journalism
What is at stake in producing philosophical thinking in the southern hemisphere—specifically in South Africa—which would critically address the whirl of representations and events of contemporary life? Since some of these events appear to totter on the brink of the term ‘postmodern’, an exploration of the relevance of that concept—better, that family of related concepts—to the South African scene must be part of the task. Postmodernism must be co…
The Security of the Obvious: On John Cage's Musical Radicalism
Neo-Natal: On Thinking New Times Philosophically
This is a paper about what it means to be early. Philosophy has been early from the moment of its inception in the west. Socrates was the first to have been ‘ahead of his time’. Thinking of himself under the sign of a midwife, he believed himself to be stamped with the project of giving birth to a new form of thinking which would in the first instance be critical of existing templates of thought and in the second grasp the essentially experimenta…
Bringing diversity to conversation
At Home Only in Negation
Daniel Herwitz reviews: Adorno, Theodor W. Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, translated by Henry Pickford (New York: Columbia Press, 1998). Suzanne Berry reviews: Lötter, Hennie. Injustice, Violence and Peace. The Case of South Africa (Amsterdam & Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 1997). Roger Deacon reviews: Gramsci, Antonio. Prison Notebooks, Volume II, edited and translated by Joseph E. Buttigieg (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996…
Afro‐Medici: The language of Thabo Mbeki's African renaissance
Postmodernists of the south: An essay in philosophical journalism
What is at stake in producing philosophical thinking in the southern hemisphere—specifically in South Africa—which would critically address the whirl of representations and events of contemporary life? Since some of these events appear to totter on the brink of the term ‘postmodern’, an exploration of the relevance of that concept—better, that family of related concepts—to the South African scene must be part of the task. Postmodernism must be co…
Francis Fukuyama and the End of History
Francis Fukuyama has argued that history has come to an end. His argument is a philosophical reading of history which derives philosophical implications from empirical views about human economy, society, recent history and the human conditions for self-realization and flourishing. It is this movement between empirical description and philosophical conceptualization that my paper explores, a movement which is both fascinating and problematical. Th…
Comedies of Mastery and Reconciliation
Reclaiming the Past and Early Modern Indian Art
The Future of the Past in South Africa: On the Legacy of the TRC
Daniel Herwitz The Future of the Past in South Africa: On the Legacy of the TRC V O L U M E 5 OF THE SO U TH A F R IC A N TR U TH A N D R E C O N C IL IA T IO N commission report contains a list of all the victims of gross human rights violations whose names appeared in the commission’s database at that time (August 30,1998).' The list is arranged in three columns and is nearly 100 pages long. It is a factual compendium, for the archive, in keepi…
The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera
Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. The Don Giovanni Moment is the first book to examine the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the n…
Maqbool Fida Husain: The Artist as India’s National Hero
In 1947, the year of India’s independence, Maqbool F Husain, Sayed H Raza, Francis Newton Souza, Ara, Bakre and Gade, associated with Chavda, Hebbar and, later, Ram Kumar, formed themselves into th
Sida, savoir et réinvention de la société civile en Afrique du Sud
Cet article attribue la prise de position du président Mbeki sur la question du VIH-Sida - en particulier son rejet de la thérapie antirétroviral - à une combinaison de facteurs politiques et idéologiques. Outre les considérations budgétaires, qui ont pesé de manière centrale, entraient également en compte la politique d'indigénéité et un refus postcolonial de ce qui est perçu comme une domination de la science et du capitalisme occidentaux (via …
Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy
Aesthetics is the branch of philosophical thought that arises from deep engagement with the arts. It is about larger issues such as meaning, identity, and medium that arise in the exploration of art, music, film and literature. Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy offers a thorough, lucid and stimulating account of the central theories and ideas encountered in aesthetics. The text is thematically structured, covering the discipline's principal …
Monument, Ruin, and Redress in South African Heritage
Apartheid ended in 1991, but its monuments were still standing. And so the question for the new government, brought to power in the first democratic elections in South African history (1994), was: What to do with them? Around these monuments had been generated powerful communalizing energies for the National Party, itself a cruel phoenix arisen from the ruination of the Afrikaner peoples in the Boer War; their devaluing of African culture had bee…
The Politics of Heritage in Africa: Economies, Histories, and Infrastructures
Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government administration, a library for traditionalists and a marketable source of value for cultural entrepreneurs. The Politics of Heritage in Africa draws together disp…
The jagged past
Negotiating Offence of Fallist Proportion: Cecil Rhodes and the Removal of University of Cape Town’s Statue
The removal of the statue of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town in 2015, prompted by the student Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) campaign, represents a window into how questions of race, art and inequality intertwined as they played out some twenty-five years into South African democracy. Since RMF then turned to the artwork exhibited at University of Cape Town, finding in it a collectively degraded vision of blackness − even though much of it wa…
The Iconoclastic Dinner Table: Judy Chicago’s "Dinner Party" and Academic Cultural Politics
American identity politics in art and the university arise in the wake of the social movements of the 1960s and focus on solidarity for marginalized groups, along with the critique of the representations which have served to marginalize them. This article bookends the rise of American cultural politics with Judy Chicago’s "Dinner Party" and Linda Nochlin’s academic feminism in art history, then turns to the right-wing reaction of offense at icono…
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