Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: New world order, new moral challenges
  • Theorizing the present : sources of the new moral self in South Africa
  • Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu as global citizens
  • The violence of history and the angel of forgiveness
  • The challenges of cosmopolitan thinking in a postapartheid society
  • Of xenophobia and other bigotries : forging transcultural visions
  • Narrating ubuntu : the weight of history and the power of care
  • Conclusion: South Africa in search of a new humanism.