Intellectual traditions in South Africa: ideas, individuals and institutions

Introduction. Of ships, bedraggled crews and the miscegenation of ideas: interpreting intellectual traditions in South Africa / Peter Vale

Part 1: Inherited ideas, transplanted institutions and local critique. The ambiguous legacy of liberalism: less a theory of society more a state of mind? / Steven Friedman

The double lives of South African Marxism / Andrew Nash

Afrikaner intellectual history: an interpretation / Pieter Duvenage

A genealogy of South African positivism / Christopher John Allsobrook

Part 2: Resistance to domination, African and Asian alternatives. African nationalism / Raymond Suttner

Pan Africanism in South Africa: a confluence of local origin and diasporic inspiration / Mcebisi Ndletyana

The intellectual foundations of the Black Consciousness Movement / Mabogo P. More

Gandhian ways: the South African experience and its legacy / Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie

Feminism and the South African polity: a failed marriage / Helen Moffett

Part 3: Religious dogma and emancipatory potential. Christianity as an intellectual tradition in South Africa: Les Trahisons des Clercs? / Anthony Egan

The Hindu intellectual tradition in South Africa: the importation and adaptation of Hindu universalism / Vashna Jagarnath

Jewish responses: "Neither the same nor different" / Sally Gross

Islam, intellectuals and the South African question / Muhammed Haron

Conclusion. The power of the past: the future of intellectual history in South Africa / Lawrence Hamilton