Browsing TD: 2007 Volume 3 No 1 by Issue Date
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From hauntology to a new animism? Nature and culture in Heinz Kimmerle’s intercultural philosophy
(2007)Derrida has proposed a new spectrology in an attempt to deal with the ghost of Marx. Kimmerle shows that Marx has forgotten nature, and enquires about Derrida’s forgetting Marx’s forgetting. With specific reference to ... -
Continuous performance improvement in the South African National Defence Force
(2007)This article concentrates on the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), as a South African public sector department, its acceptance of the Batho Pele principles and the implementation of various organisational ... -
From apathy to oblivion? The shameful history of heritage resource management in the Vaal Triangle
(2007)The Vaal Triangle is richly endowed with a prehistory that commenced c. 1.5 million years ago, when a succession of Stone Age cultures flourished in the fertile Vaal-Klip valley in the environs of the modern industrial ... -
How to make sense of the past – salient issues of Metahistory
(2007)This aerticle provides an overview of current issues in metahistoty. Basic categories of historical thinking, such as memory and historical culture, or historical consciousness, are outlined and contextualised in the ... -
‘When we are tired we shall rest’: bus boycotts in the United States of America and South Africa and prospects for comparative prospects history
(2007)This article looks at some of the practical, methodological, and disciplinary issues connected to comparative and transnational history through the lens of bus boycotts in South Africa and the United States in the 1950s. ... -
The Vaal River Barrage, South Africa’s hardest working water way: an historical contemplation
(2007)South Africa’s Vaal River is the country’s hardest working rivers. It has been instrumental in securing valuable water supplies in the development of the country’s economic hub – the Gauteng Province. Since the mid-twentieth ... -
Transdisciplinary research in the cooperation between intercultural philosophy and empirical sciences
(2007)This article will examine how philosophy and empirical sciences can cooperate in research. It is presupposed that in philosophy and in the empirical sciences different types of discourses are used. This difference causes ... -
Dignity and work: global market and self-sustenance
(2007)It is argued here that market fundamentalistic theories ignore the issue of human agency in work, and the different types of work, because – focussing on the market mechanism, supply, demand, and price - they have lost ...
