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• W817837548 abstract "Praeg, Leonhard, A Report on Ubuntu. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press 2014, 305 pp. The term 'community' has gained prominence contemporary public political discourse. It has become a favourite the speeches of politicians who use it to invoke a deeper moral commitment from their followers and the public at large. 'Community' thus often makes its way into the discourse for purely instrumental purposes only very loosely associated with its substantive contributions to political understanding and social engagement. Its inclusion through phrases such as 'community focused', and 'to work for the community' is intended by the politician as a veiled critique or questioning of myopic and selfish trends her society. The appeal thereof as a rhetorical device is that it allows for her to be critical without sounding prescriptive, for who is against community? The almost automatic sentimentality and vagueness of the term makes it an ideal device for a politician who wants to reflect a deep morality without appearing dogmatic and preachy. A similar fate seems to have befallen 'Ubunttf South Africa. The manner which it is employed within the South African political landscape more often than not reflects such a sentimentalisation. It would be a mistake, however, to ascribe this to being but a reflection of the moralising phraseology of our politicians, bureaucrats, and others on the public stage. Leonhard Praeg his newly released book contends that it signifies but the latest iteration an ongoing and highly political contestation of ideas, between Western modernity axiomatically posited on individual autonomy, and a tradition of thought critical of it. Praeg's work is a deep engagement with the fundamental political nature of the discourse which has always surrounded Ubuntu. This is made evident right at the outset of his work with the rather peculiar title, A Report on Ubuntu. By means of this title he links the study to the act of reporting, as the giving of an account of oneself, and more specifically then to the notion of responsibility. He argues, drawing on the ideas of Derrida, that as academics we always have the responsibility of articulating and making visible the politics that is constantly reproduced and through our institutions of higher learning (p 3). In a similar vein, this book, as a report on Ubuntu, thus reflects an endeavour to make visible and engage with the politics that shape our use and understanding of the concept. He makes it clear that any broad engagement with Ubuntu as a philosophy about our shared in its articulation as first and foremost a political act, cannot but amount to or imply a confrontation with the measures and mechanisms that historically excluded it as a sign of primitiveness, only to reappropriate it later as a messianic signifier of our shared humanity (p 15). …" @default.
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