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