Leigh van Niekerk
Biographic Data
| ID | 9199799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leigh van Niekerk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leigh |
| FAMILY NAME | van Niekerk |
| SIGNATURE | VAN NIEKERK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Postmodernism's Pit Stops en Route to Utopia
From the outset, this article emphasises the notions of language, history and death as indispensible to any reading of Ben Okri's In Arcadia ([2002] 2003). From this, the article explains the relevance of the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Martin Heidegger to Okri's writing in particular and to postmodern literature in general. Heidegger's concept of being-towards-death as the only way to achieve Dasein (authentic human exis…
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Postmodernism's Pit Stops en Route to Utopia
From the outset, this article emphasises the notions of language, history and death as indispensible to any reading of Ben Okri's In Arcadia ([2002] 2003). From this, the article explains the relevance of the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Martin Heidegger to Okri's writing in particular and to postmodern literature in general. Heidegger's concept of being-towards-death as the only way to achieve Dasein (authentic human exis…
African cultural and philosophical studies (1 works) · Arcadia (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Explication (1 works) · Hermeneutics (1 works) · History (1 works) · Literature (1 works) · Philosophy (1 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (1 works)