Open AccessWanneer klop jy jou pyp op jou velskoen uit? Oor stories en kultuurkritiek
Author(s) -
Ernst Wolff
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
hts teologiese studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2072-8050
pISSN - 0259-9422
DOI - 10.4102/hts.v56i4.1813
Subject(s) - introspection , criticism , narrative , exposition (narrative) , nationalism , value (mathematics) , sociology , relation (database) , racism , literature , media studies , epistemology , philosophy , law , gender studies , political science , art , computer science , database , machine learning , politics
At what moment do you knock out your pipe on your velskoen? On stories and cultural criticism. This essay proposes a frame of reference in which the culture critical introspection of a community can be understood. A critical exposition of elements of the philosophies of Jeismann, Kuhn, Gadamer and Lyotard is developed with reference to their value for a narratological perspective. The author proposes a narrative understanding of a community and its members, their documents and the relation between community, members and documents. Two elements in relaion to which stories of any community in South Africa could be read - racism and nationalism - are also examined