Browsing by Subject "Michel Foucault"
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Die Groot Trek 175: storie of historie?
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2013)This article investigates the relationship between the writer of a historical novel and the historiography. To what extent does the novelist depend on the historical facts researched by the historian? Undoubtedly the ... -
Heterotopiese ruimtes van krisis en die natuur se genesende invloed in Chinchilla (Nanette van Rooyen)
(Tydskrif vir letterkunde Association (TLA), 2010)In this article, Michel Foucault’s term crises heterotopia is used to understand and describe the main character’s unique experience of particular places in Chinchilla. The article investigates the manner in which nature ... -
Intellektuele en mag : 'n ondersoek na die rol wat filosofie gespeel het in die openbare debat rondom Covid-19
(North-West University (South Africa), 2023)A few months into the pandemic, the philosopher Giorgio Agamben argued that the measures implemented by governments, including social distancing and the wearing of masks, were irrational. According to him, the coronavirus ... -
n Herevaluering van Eben Venter se Wolf, wolf binne die konteks van sy oeuvre
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)Generally well-received in Afrikaans and South African literary criticism and far from completely undervalued in terms of literary prizes, the work of Afrikaans author Eben Venter is, however, in need of reappraisal. Some ... -
Uneasy images, unstable identities: inscriptions of masculinities in selected post-independent Zimbabwean literary texts
(North-West University (South Africa), 2019)This thesis is premised on the notion that gender and gender studies are essentially dialogic. This highlights the fact that both male and female subjects are gendered and none exist as closed off or isolated sub-sets or ... -
What are we doing when we do philosophy? A critical engagement with the limits of philosophical practice via Foucault, Deleuze and
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)In this mini-dissertation I argue that the disenchantment of philosophy – the extraction of the remnants of its idealist and transcendent metaphysical core – is not just possible, but also ethically important and existentially ...