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Law and Revolution in South Africa : uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation.
Title:
Law and Revolution in South Africa : uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation.
Author:
Cornell, Drucilla.
ISBN:
9780823257591
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (224 pages)
Series:
Just Ideas
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Transitional Justice versus Substantive Revolution -- I: Should Critical Theory Remain Revolutionary? -- 1. Is Technology a Fatal Destiny? Heidegger's Relevance for South Africa and Other "Developing" Countries -- 2. Socialism or Radical Democratic Politics? On Laclau and Mouffe -- II: The Legal Challenge of uBuntu -- 3. Dignity Violated: Rethinking AZAPO through uBuntu -- 4. Which Law, Whose Humanity? The Significance of Policulturalism in the Global South -- 5. Living Customary Law and the Law: Does Custom Allow for a Woman to Be Hosi? -- III: The Struggle over uBuntu -- 6. uBuntu, Pluralism, and the Responsibility of Legal Academics -- 7. Rethinking Ethical Feminism through uBuntu -- 8. Is There a Difference That Makes a Difference between Dignity and uBuntu? -- 9. Where Dignity Ends and uBuntu Begins: A Response by Yvonne Mokgoro and Stu Woolman -- Conclusion: uBuntu and Subaltern Legality -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that comes with the revolutionary overthrow of past dictatorships, how one reconstructs a new government is a burning issue.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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