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PHILOSOPHY
Equal Society, The
Essays on equality in theory and practice
Editor: G Hull
Social equality emerged as an approach in philosophy in the late 1990s, and is now a topic in most undergraduate courses in political philosophy. Its idea is that justice is not only a matter of distributing goods or welfare equally, but rather a matter of achieving a society in which individuals are on equal terms. The essays in The Equal Society aim to move the concept of social equality forward by exploring its connections with other areas of philosophy, such as the critical philosophy of race, and recognition theory. It examines how historical philosophy — Platonic, Kantian and African approaches to equality — can inform current thought. And it depicts how the social equality approach can be applied to equality in higher education, egalitarian social relations in the organisation of corporations, and the gendered division of labour. There has not yet been an essay collection dedicated speci cally to social equality. The essays in this book are speci cally written for this volume, by internationally renowned, leading scholars.
POLITICS AND SECURITY
African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab
Spring, The
A season of rebirth?
Editors: C Villa-Vicencio, E Doxtader & E Moosa
Current developments in Africa — North and South — promise something markedly di erent to what has prevailed at any point since the dawn of the African independence movements in the 1950s. They are reminiscent of the ‘European moment’ in 1989 that saw the fall of the Berlin Wall. Countries such as Mali, the Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Somalia and Zimbabwe are experiencing turbulence every bit as challenging as those in the Afro-Arab countries and South Africa. This book speci cally identi es and assesses lessons learned and insights gained from the South African transition and considers whether these lessons and insights have any signi cance for Arab Spring countries. In turn, current protests and emerging threats to democracy in the Arab Spring countries are highlighted as realities which South Africa would do well to ponder.
2016
348 pages
Soft cover
Print: 978 1 77582 218 9 Southern African rights only R427.00
BISAC: PHI019000, PHI034000 BIC: HPS
2015
240 pages
Soft cover
Print: 978 1 77582 084 0 Web pdf: 978 1 77582 093 2 Southern African rights only R313.00
BISAC: BUS068000
BIC: KCF