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Martin Versfeld

Author: Ernst Wolff

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9462702977

Martin Versfeld (1909–1995) is one of South Africa’s greatest philosophers, appreciated by academics and activists, poets and the broader public. His masterful prose spans the tension between disquiet and joy. Detractor of the violent trends of modernity, a critic of apartheid from the first hour, he was among the first philosophers of ecology. At the same time he celebrated the generosity of the world and advocated an ethics of simplicity, drawing on mediaeval theology and Eastern wisdom. His philosophy offered food for thought in dark times of the 20th century, as it still does for us in the 21st century. This first book-length study on Versfeld is an invitation to think with him on justice and exploitation, cultural difference and human nature, religion and the environment, time and connectedness.

Hidden Mutualities

Author: Michael Mitchell

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9042021101

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Hidden mutualities link the work of major postcolonial writers with Christopher Marlowe's drama of the Faustian pact - the manipulation of the material world in exchange for the soul - written as the 'scientific' world-view was emerging which accompanied the imperial expansion of Europe and has determined the economic and social structures of the colonial and postcolonial world. This fascinating study brings together researches in widely different fields to show how Doctor Faustus reflects a Gnostic / Hermetic tradition marginalized within the dominant European power structures. Rediscovered in the Renaissance, and combined with occult arts such as alchemy and magic, this living tradition informs the work of 'Magus' figures such as Pico della Mirandola, Marcilio Ficino, Trithemius, Johannes Reuchlin, Agrippa of Nettesheim, Paracelsus and John Dee, who are reflected in the Faust tradition and in Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest. The second part investigates the dual legacy of the Magus. A counterpoint between a law-governed objective material world and an occult visionary pursuit of the divine potential of the human imagination is traced through the examples of Johan Kepler, Robert Fludd, Isaac Newton, William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, Aleister Crowley, W.B. Yeats, Wolfgang Pauli and C.G. Jung. In the third part, textual analysis reveals how attention to these Faustian themes opens new and exciting critical perspectives in appreciating the works of postcolonial writers, in particular Dimetos by Athol Fugard, Disappearance by David Dabydeen, Omeros by Derek Walcott, and the novels of Wilson Harris.

Our Selves

Author: Marthinus Versfeld

Publisher: David Philip Publishers

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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Philosopher's Cookbook

Author: Martin Versfeld

Publisher: No Exit Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781842432365

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For Martin Versfeld cooking is neither a chore nor a lifestyle embellishment, it is an encounter with the mystery that lives at the heart of ordinary things. With humour and gentleness, from the delights of the garden to the tyranny of convenience food, Versfeld's recipes have more of the poet about them than the instructor. A compelling read, Versfeld's simplicity and heart is a joy for all readers: this title is a cookbook, a philosophical enquiry and an essay on the human predicament all at once.

The Dominican Friars in Southern Africa

Author: Philippe Denis

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-05-18

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9004320016

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The purpose of this book is to gather in a single narrative the rather disparate stories of Dominican friars in Southern Africa over the past four centuries. Dominicans from Portugal and Portuguese India were present in South-East Africa from 1577 to 1835. Patrick Raymond Griffith, an Irish Dominican, became the first resident bishop in South Africa in 1837. A Dominican mission was established in 1917 with the arrival of a group of English friars. A second group arrived from the Netherlands in 1932. The aim is to provide a social history of the Dominicans in Southern Africa, that is, a history that deals specifically with the social and cultural factors of historical development. The Dominicans ministered in a political, social and cultural context which impacted on their apostolic activities and, in turn, was affected by them. The book's terminus ad quem is 1990, when the National Party opened a process of political negotiation, thus ending more than forty years of apartheid rule.

South Africa, Greece, Rome

Author: Grant Parker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-08-31

Total Pages: 579

ISBN-13: 1108210481

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How have ancient Greece and Rome intersected with South African histories? This book canvasses architecture, literature, visual arts and historical memory. Some of the most telling manifestations of classical reception in South Africa have been indirect, for example neo-classical architecture or retellings of mythical stories. Far from being the mere handmaiden of colonialism (and later apartheid), classical antiquity has enabled challenges to the South African establishment, and provided a template for making sense of cross-cultural encounters. Though access to classical education has been limited, many South Africans, black and white, have used classical frames of reference and drawn inspiration from the ancient Greeks and Romans. While classical antiquity may seem antithetical to post-apartheid notions of heritage, it deserves to be seen in this light. Museums, historical sites and artworks, up to the present day, reveal juxtapositions in which classical themes are integrated into South African pasts.

Doctor Faustus

Author: David Bevington

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1993-05-15

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780719016431

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This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments.

The Bonhoeffer Legacy

Author: ATF Press

Publisher: ATF Press

Published: 2018-12-31

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1925872726

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This collection of essays looks at a range of topics: public theology, why Chinese intlectuals are intersted in engaging with Bonhoeffer, Bonhoeffers concept of the logos and public theology and Bohoeffer's approach to social analyis. Contibutors: Barry Harvey, Robert Vosloo, Jason Lam, Joel Banman and Dustin Benac.