Finiteness, own resurrection and the polities of différance

Employing Derrida' s notion of différance, the author approaches the conviction of life after death (own resurrection ) as a conviction which has been typically marginalized and even disallowed by modernity. The politics of differance, which could be regarded as a postmodern strategy for rehabilitating those aspects of reality which were marginalized by modernity, is shown to have critical consequences for the linear (modern) understanding of finiteness and death. Rather than understand finiteness and own resurrection as being in linear relation, the author appeals to the postmodern persuasion of the siclical nature of reality: death is own resurrection. Death is a life giving gift: The Self dies so that Others may live - and the Self is resurrected when it lives on in the lives of Others. Thus parting company with the empirical understanding of history, death and resurrection, the author leaves us with the tadt question: is this not the way the resurrection of Christ is to be understood? He lives on in us, as we will live on in Others.Spine cut of Journal binding and pages scanned on flatbed EPSON Expression 10000 XL; 400dpi; text/lineart - black and white - stored to Tiff Derivation: Abbyy Fine Reader v.9 work with PNG-format (black and white); Photoshop CS3; Adobe Acrobat v.9 Web display format PDFhttp://explore.up.ac.za/record=b1001341wm201

Michel Foucault en die historisering van Anderswees

Michel Foucault and the historization of Otherness In this article the intimate relation between power, history and historiography is explored within the context of the postmodem philosophy/ historiography of Michel Foucault. Foucault confronts us with a timeless question: do we recognize our own dicourses of power? Do we recognize the Other, the victims of instrumental reason? At the end of the Middle Ages leprosy disappeared from the face of the earth. (Michel Foucault: Opening sentence in Madness and Civilization

Other illumination: With Adorno at the heartbeat of the post-modern intellect

In this article Adorno's critique of identity thinking and modem systems of thought are exploited within the context of the current debate of modernity. It is argued that the usurpation of the so-called Other (which the author Calls "Anderverdringing") is at the core of modem thought, and that the illumination of the Other (which the author calls "Ander-bereddering") is at the core of postmodern thought. Habermas' theory of communicative action is used to bring Adorno's critique of identity thinking to the Jore as a form ofpostmodern critique, exactly in the sense that Adorno's philosophy is essentially Otherilluminating

The Function of Genocide in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: ‘Ondergang Van Die Tweede Wêreld’ (‘Destruction of the Second World’) by Eugène N. Marais (1933)

In an effort to gain greater clarity about the purpose of the deployment of genocidal elements in what is probably the earliest post-apocalyptic text written in Afrikaans, entitled ‘Ondergang van die Tweede Wêreld’ (‘Destruction of the Second World’), this article offers a careful reading of the story against the background of the larger oeuvre of author Eugène N. Marais. Although the story develops as a thought experiment drawing on racial tensions that existed in South Africa during Marais's lifetime (1871–1936), an environmental disaster that threatens all life on Earth with extinction finally connects local exigencies with global concerns. With reference to the work of Norman Angell, who argued that violent interventions often merely lead to the perpetuation of the political injustice that they aim to eradicate, Marais introduces a ‘spectroperiscopic’ vision in his story that challenges the logic that underlies the genocidal motivations of his characters and, also, projects local concerns onto a global canvas. The emphasis on the survival of human life and the preservation of written testimonies finally function as counterpoints to the disconcerting view of an indifferent natural world that apparently fosters a relentless and cruel competitiveness among humans in their battle for survival in a post-apocalyptic landscape. Ultimately, in defence of Marais's story, the article challenges the arguments of earlier critics about the presumed dark subconscious urges of a morphine-addicted writer to account for the shocking scenes of genocide in ‘Destruction of the Second World’.http://www.tandfonline.comtoc/reia202016-06-30hb2016Afrikaan