Ernst Wolff

Mongameli Mabona

His Life and Work

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The life and work of a remarkably versatile and pioneering South African thinker

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Leuven University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9789462702554
• ISBN-10: 9462702551
• Artikelnr.: 60063717

Autorenporträt

Ernst Wolff is professor of philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface PART 1 - LIFE1. Xhosaland: A history of confrontations 1. A snapshot of Xhosa life in the mid eighteenth century 2. Accelerated change: A typology of mounting conflict 3. A changing region in a changing world 3.1 Spread of Boers and British expansion 3.2 British domination and its effects on Xhosaland and beyond 3.3 Changes from the Xhosaland perspective 3.4 Changes from the broader South African perspective 2. (Dis)Union: The world of Mabonäs youth (1910 to the mid 1950s) 1. International and Union politics 2. The economy 3. Separation
reserves
labour 4. Transkei: Culture, religion, education 5. Resistance nationally and in the Transkei 3. Enter Mongameli 1. Birth and first years 2. Early childhood in Qombolo 3. Life in Zigudu
Catholic background (1) 4. Ixopo
Catholic background (2) 5. Pevensey
Catholic background (3) 6. Early priesthood 4. Italy 1. Italian society after World War II 2. Everyday life in Rome 3. Mabona, the student and researcher 4. Further intellectual work 5. Second Congress of Black Writers and Artists: Alioune Diop and Présence Africaine Excursion: The journal Présence Africaine 6. Preparing for Vatican II 5. Back home? Apartheid, St. Peter
s, SPOBA 1. Apartheid 2. Apartheid education 3. The South African economy in the 1960s 4. Resistance 4.1 The ANC and the PAC 5. Life back in South Africa 5.1 Lumko 5.2 Independent ethnographic studies 5.3 Poetry 5.4 Lecturer at St. Peter
s in Hammanskraal 6. London and Switzerland: Politics or anthropology? 1. SOAS 2. The Azanian People
s Liberation Front and other politics 3. Family life 4. Continued research PART 2
WORK 1. Lux: The first impetus 2. Présence Africaine: Writing for a wide public 3.
The depths of African philosophy
and The outlines of African philosophy 3.1 General appraisal: South Africäs first African philosopher? 1 4. Dissertatio ad lauream in Facultate Juris Canonici apud Pontificiam Universitatem Urbanianam 5.
The nuclear blast of spring
: Poetry 6. Writings of a South African priest 7. Anthropology and religion 8. Interlude: The publication spurt of 1996 9. Diviners and prophets: The last, incomplete, work 9.1 Final appraisal Timeline Mabona primary bibliography Notes on the sources for interviews and biography References