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OverviewThe relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that comes with the revolutionary overthrow of past dictatorships, how one reconstructs a new government is a burning issue. South Africa, after a long and bloody armed struggle and a series of militant uprisings, negotiated a settlement for a new government and remains an important example of what a substantive revolution might look like. The essays collected in this book address both the broader question of law and revolution and some of the specific issues of transformation in South Africa. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Drucilla CornellPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780823257577ISBN 10: 0823257576 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 03 April 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Preface 1. Introduction: Transitional Justice Versus Substantive Revolution Should Critical Theory Remain Revolutionary? 2. Is Technology a Fatal Destiny? The Relevance of Heidegger for South Africa and for All ""Developing"" Countries 3. Socialism or Radical Democratic Politics? On Laclau and Mouffe The Legal Challenge of uBuntu 4. Dignity Violated: Rethinking AZAPO Through uBuntu 5. Which Law, Whose Humanity? The Significance of Policulturalism in the Global South 6. The Significance of the Living Customary Law for an Understanding of Law: Does Custom Allow for a Woman to Be Hosi? The Struggle over uBuntu 7. uBuntu, Pluralism, and the Responsibility of Legal Academics to the New South Africa 8. Rethinking Ethical Feminism Through uBuntu 9. Is There a Difference that Makes a Difference Between Dignity and uBuntu? 10. Where Dignity Ends and uBuntu Begins - A Response by Yvonne Mokgoro and Stu Woolman Conclusion: uBuntu and Subaltern Legality Notes Index"ReviewsThis book is a rare one-the reflections on philosophy, law, and political theory are profound and moving. Rather than reproduce the multiple stages of debate surrounding transitional justice reconciliation vs. forgiveness, memory vs. forgetting the author shifts the question toward what she calls 'substantive revolution.' This marks an advance in discussions of reconciliation and political life after massive, sustained spasms of violence. When one adds to that a significant dose of philosophy and critical theory- from Heidegger through contemporary political philosophers- the book takes on a new thread in theorizing transition and gives it real complexity. Substantive revolution is deepened by critical theory, critical theory is deepened by engagement with the concrete work of substantive revolution. -John Drabinski, Amherst College This book is a rare one-the reflections on philosophy, law, and political theory are profound and moving. Rather than reproduce the multiple stages of debate surrounding transitional justice--reconciliation vs. forgiveness, memory vs. forgetting--the author shifts the question toward what she calls 'substantive revolution.' This marks an advance in discussions of reconciliation and political life after massive, sustained spasms of violence. When one adds to that a significant dose of philosophy and critical theory- from Heidegger through contemporary political philosophers- the book takes on a new thread in theorizing transition and gives it real complexity. Substantive revolution is deepened by critical theory, critical theory is deepened by engagement with the concrete work of substantive revolution. -John Drabinski, Amherst College Partly focusing on South Africa as a case study, Cornell considers the challenge of reconstructing a government after the revolutionary overthrow of past dictatorships. -Law & Social Inquiry, Journal of the American Bar Foundation Author InformationDrucilla Cornell was Professor Emerita of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University; Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria, South Africa; and a visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. With a background in philosophy, law, and grassroots mobilization, she played a central role in the organization of the memorable conferences on deconstruction and justice at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1989, 1990, and 1993. She was the author of The Philosophy of the Limit (1992), Feminism and Pornography (2000), and Law and Revolution in South Africa: uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation (2014). She has also coedited several books: Feminism as Critique: On the Politics of Gender (1987), with Seyla Benhabib; and Hegel and Legal Theory (1991) and Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice (1992), with David Gray Carlson and Michel Rosenfeld. She was part of a philosophical exchange with Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, and Nancy Fraser entitled Feminist Contentions (1995). In addition to her academic work, she wrote four produced plays. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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