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Author Cornell, Drucilla, author

Title Law and revolution in South Africa : uBuntu, dignity, and the struggle for constitutional transformation / Drucilla Cornell
Edition First edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 210 pages .)
Series Just ideas, transformative ideals of justice in ethical and political thought
Just ideas.
Contents Is technology a fatal destiny? : Heidegger's for South Africa and all "developing" countries -- Socialism or radical democratic politics? : on Laclau and Mouffe -- Dignity violated : rethinking AZAPO through uBuntu -- Which law, whose humanity? : the significance of policulturalism in the Global South -- Living customary law and the law : does custom allow for a woman to be Hosi? -- uBuntu, pluralism, and the responsibility of legal academics -- Rethinking ethical feminism through uBuntu -- Is there a difference that makes a difference between dignity and uBuntu? -- Where dignity ends and uBuntu begins : a response by Yvonne Mokgoro and Stuart Woolman
Summary This study grapples with fundamental questions regarding what type of revolution took place in South Africa over a more then 50 year long struggle. Each chapter grapples with the questions related to the idea that the revolution in South Africa was a substantive revolution, because of its insistence on the establishment of a democratic and constitutional state that recognized the thoroughgoing wrongs of the colonial and apartheid past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-208) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Constitutional law -- South Africa
Respect for persons -- Law and legislation -- South Africa
Customary law -- South Africa.
Ubuntu (Philosophy)
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Constitutional law
Customary law
Respect for persons -- Law and legislation
Ubuntu (Philosophy)
South Africa
Form Electronic book
Author UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online). MaRLi UPSO 2014
ISBN 9780823261130
0823261131
9780823257614
0823257614
9780823257591
0823257592