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Affiche du document Journey to Ithaca: A personal memoir

Journey to Ithaca: A personal memoir

William Rowland

2h39min00

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212 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h39min.
"Journey to Ithaca is an extraordinary memoir about an extraordinary life. Of its author it may well be said, in Shakespeare’s words (from Henry VI, part I, aptly quoted in the prelims): “Who would e’er suppose [he] had such courage and audacity?” From the outset, William Rowland invites his readers to accompany him along his personal journey to Ithaca. It was at Ithaca Mansions in Sea Point, Cape Town, that, at the age of five, a happy little boy lost his vision in consequence of a gunshot through his temple, severing his optic nerves. That was, definitively, the day the light went out. With enormous courage and determination William approached life head-on, achieving what many others might have found too daunting to attempt. Writing with restraint and dignity in Journey to Ithaca, William tells his life story in a series of short chapters marking significant stages and events of his life, recounting the challenges and the achievements in equal measure, and often with gentle humour. What shines through most strongly from this memoir is that at no time has William allowed his blindness to define or limit him and certainly never to deny him the fullness of experience and adventure encountered by the sighted. Intellectual, leader, innovator, activist, author, mentor, as well as loving father—William Rowland fills each of these roles with consummate ability and enthusiasm. His life story thus far, as told in Journey to Ithaca, will inspire all who read it, whether blind or sighted."
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Affiche du document Reappraising the Life and Legacy of Jan C. Smuts

Reappraising the Life and Legacy of Jan C. Smuts

David Boucher

5h27min00

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436 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 5h27min.
"In this book, the authors cover both familiar and unfamiliar themes. One of the principal themes running throughout the book addresses head-on the deficiency in the literature highlighted by Saul Dubow, namely, the question of racism and Smuts’s reluctance to implement ‘native’ policies that may have averted future problems, rather than postpone them. We see throughout, a gap between the rhetoric and policy, and between policy and practice in its implementation. Amongst the familiar themes that are reappraised, are Smuts’s successes and failures in policies and leadership, domestically and internationally. ‘This wide-ranging volume re-evaluates myriad aspects of Smuts’ life, philosophy, political career and legacy. An important and timely book exploring one of South Africa’s most consequential and controversial leaders.’ Luc-Andre Brunet – Contemporary International History, The Open University. The book is a great contribution to South African cultural and social history. With the military element covered in other publications, the editors and authors have focussed on the less well-trodden aspects of Smuts’s history including but not limited to discussions on the atomic bomb, counter-revolution, film, early cabinets, racialism, trusteeship, ‘greatness’, political philosophy, racial segregation, and myth-making. The editors have skilfully continued the longer political discussion, reflecting on the myth and legacy of a prominent South African - Smuts. Antonio Garcia, Stellenbosch University, coauthor of Botha, Smuts and the First World War, co-founder Underground Strategy."
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Affiche du document Sinsoekers: Tussen Twyfel en Troos

Sinsoekers: Tussen Twyfel en Troos

Johan Cilliers

2h45min00

  • Religions et spiritualité
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220 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h45min.
Johan Cilliers bied hier ’n teologiese boek aan wat tegelykertyd ook ’n kunswerk is – en wys daarmee dat teologiese diskoerse ’n opwindende kombinasie van skilderye, gedigte, refleksies, verhale, baie humor, Bybelse woorde, preke en meditasies kan wees. Hierdie boek is ’n ‘bricolage’ – ’n skepping uit ’n verskeidenheid van dinge – en demonstreer dat ons lewens ook ’n skone bricolage in God se oë is. In sy estetiese vorm, maar ook inhoud, is hierdie boek geheel en al anders as baie ander wat al oor ‘die sin van die lewe’ geskryf is. Johan Cilliers onderbreek elke selfgefabriseerde produksie van betekenis en stuur sy lesers in die rigting van die gawe van genade. Hy open die horison na God en die genade van die betekenis wat God aan ons as klein, maar kosbare fragmente skenk. Hierdie is ’n boek oor ons ‘eskatologiese eksistensie’ – maar dit klink veels te abstrak. Ek het baie ontdek en geleer deur hierdie boek te lees, het in kontak met die skrywer en sy familie gekom, het bestudeer wat hom fassineer, en baie beter gevoel nadat ek dit klaar gelees het. Dit is waarskynlik die beste wat mens oor ’n teologiese boek kán sê. Alexander Deeg: Professor in Praktiese Teologie, Leipzig, Duitsland. In hierdie diep persoonlike boek maak bekende Cilliers temas — insluitend die skep van sin, prediking, moderne kuns, kleur, Stellenbosse wyne, en die Karoo — op ’n verrassend nuwe wyse hulle verskyning. Hulle word verbind met intens gelukkige en uiters hartseer outobiografiese momente, en word as niks meer as fragmente aangebied nie. Terwyl mens egter die boek lees, begin die fragmente as ’n geheel met mekaar kommunikeer, en skep só al spelende ’n verrassende, eksistensiële teologie. ’n Teologie wat aanhaak by jou eie eksistensie as leser. Neem, lees, en geniet hierdie smaakvolle boek. Marcel Barnard: Professor in Praktiese Teologie aan die Protestantse Teologiese Universiteit, Amsterdam, en Buitengewone Professor aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch. Johan Cilliers is Emeritus Professor in Homiletiek en Liturgiek, ’n voormalige hoof van die Departement Praktiese Teologie en Missiologie aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch, ’n voormalige voorsitter van die Prakties-Teologiese Werksgemeenskap van Suid-Afrika, asook voormalige president van Societas Homiletica (die internasionale vereniging vir Homiletiek). Hy het sy teologiese opleiding aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch, asook die Karl Rupprecht Universiteit in Heidelberg, Duitsland, ondergaan. Hy het al as gasdosent opgetree by die Universiteit van Umeå (Swede), die Universiteite van Leipzig, Hamburg, Würzburg, Humboldt/Berlyn (Duitsland), die Universiteit van Basel (Switserland), asook die Vrije Universiteit (Nederland) waar van sy boeke as voorgeskrewe literatuur gedien het. Sedert 2021 word van sy werke ook in Russies vertaal vir gebruik by die Universiteit van St. Petersburg, Rusland. Hy het al meer as 120 akademiese artikels in geakkrediteerde tydskrifte die lig laat sien, asook 23 populêre godsdienstige boeke, benewens 18 akademiese monografieë, onder andere oor prediking, liturgie en estetika. Van sy boeke is in Koreaans en Duits vertaal en in daardie lande gepubliseer, asook in die Verenigde State van Amerika. Tydens 2022 word hy met ʼn A1-gradering deur die Nasionale Navorsingstigting (NNS) vereer.
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