The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa

Exploring the defence and articulation of free speech in South Africa, Nash examines Dutch attempts to modernize the legacy of the Enlightenment, the existentialism of a generation of Afrikaners during the 1940s and the renewal of Afrikaans literature.

Andrew Nash is associate professor of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Dutch Republicanism and the Dialectical Tradition Chapter 2: The Politics of Free Enquiry in Colonial South Africa Chapter 3: Wine Farming, Heresy Trials and the Stellenbosch Philosophical Tradition Chapter 4: How Kierkegaard Came to Stellenbosch Chapter 5: Johan Degenaar and the Politics of Oop Gesprek Chapter 6: Breyten Breytenbach as Dialectical Thinker Chapter 7: Marxism and Dialectic, from Sharpeville to the Negotiated Settlement Chapter 8: The New Politics of Afrikaans Notes Index