The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa

by Andrew Nash

Book Overview

This book brings into view the most enduring and distinctive philosophical current in South African history--one often obscured or patronized as Afrikaner liberalism. It traces this current of thought from nineteenth-century disputes over Dutch liberal theology through Stellenbosch existentialism to the prison writings of Breyten Breytenbach, and examines related themes in the work of Olive Schreiner, M. K. Gandhi, and Richard Turner. At the core...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138871281
• ISBN13: 9781138871281
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"