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I presented a paper at the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa’s annual conference at the University of Pretoria under the above title. The abstract below and the paper attached.
Abstract
This paper argues that there is a tradition of philosophical critique which starts with Hegel’s dialectics and was developed, each time in a slightly different direction, by [...]

Abstract
Two major developments of the last two decades have radically undermined traditional justifications of leftist politics: the failure of twentieth century `socialist’ experiments, and what might be termed the de-essentialising movement in contemporary philosophy. However, the social injustices that animated revolutionary thinkers in many respects remain, and some have arguably worsened in the era [...]