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  • A University Revisited

    Student Mobilisation, Pedagogy, and Academic Leadership in a Time of Political Crises

    by Gregory Anderson, Robert Van Niekerk ...
    Concentrating on the importance of universities as pivotal sites of access and the unfettered exchange of ideas, the authors explore the forms of influence and historical opposition to extreme right-wing policy on higher education.  Drawing on the experiences of South Africa’s University of the Western Cape (UWC) during apartheid, the book documents how the institution resisted prolonged ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Shadow of Liberation

    Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the African National Congress, 1943-1996

    by Vishnu Padayachee, Robert Van Niekerk ...
    Shadow of Liberation explores the intricate twists, turns, contestations and compromises of ANC economic and social policymaking with a focus on the transition era of the 1990’s and the early years of democracyWith the damning revelations by the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on the massive corruption of the South African body politic, the timing of this book could not be more ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Controverting Kierkegaard

    Translated by Prof Hans Fink, Prof Kees van Kooten Niekerk ...
    by K. E. Løgstrup ...
    Series series Selected Works of K.E. Logstrup
    This is the first English edition of a major work by the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup (1905-81). It is the culmination of his critical engagement with Kierkegaardianism, which had begun almost 20 years earlier. In this text, Løgstrup focuses on four main themes in Kierkegaard: his understanding of Christ and thus of Christianity; his understanding of suffering in human ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

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  • The Great Philosophers: Hegel

    by Raymond Plant ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
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  • Migration in Southern Africa

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    Edited by Pragna Rugunanan, Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access Regional Reader proposes new ways of theorizing migration in Southern Africa by arguing that traditional western forms of theorizing do not adequately fit the South-South migration context. It explores the existing definitions of a ‘migrant’ with a view to conceptualise a definition which will speak to the complexities, envisioning a more inclusive Southern African region. The ... Read more

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  • Warranted Christian Belief

    by Alvin Plantinga ...
    This is the third volume in Alvin Plantinga's trilogy on the notion of warrant, which he defines as that which distinguishes knowledge from true belief. In this volume, Plantinga examines warrant's role in theistic belief, tackling the questions of whether it is rational, reasonable, justifiable, and warranted to accept Christian belief and whether there is something epistemically unacceptable in ... Read more

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  • Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling

    Edited by C. Stephen Evans, Sylvia Walsh ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    In this rich and resonant work, Soren Kierkegaard reflects poetically and philosophically on the biblical story of God's command to Abraham, that he sacrifice his son Isaac as a test of faith. Was Abraham's proposed action morally and religiously justified or murder? Is there an absolute duty to God? Was Abraham justified in remaining silent? In pondering these questions, Kierkegaard presents ... Read more

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  • The SPCK Introduction to Kierkegaard

    by Dr Peter Vardy ...
    Series series SPCK Introductions
    This is a book about a remarkable man - yet in an important sense it is not about this man at all.Soren Kierkegaard died in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the age of forty-two in 1855. His writings had little influence in his lifetime and after his death, even with the translation of some of his works into German, he was barely known. Yet today, he is internationally accepted as one of the world's ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership

    Edited by R. A. W. Rhodes, Paul 't Hart ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
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  • The Religion of Existence

    Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre

    by Noreen Khawaja ...
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  • Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism

    Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada

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    In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally while personally processing thousands of individual ... Read more

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