Rick Turner (philosopher)

Richard Turner ( born 1942 in Stellenbosch, † January 8, 1978 in Durban ), known as Rick Turner, a South African philosopher was.

To undogmatic radical left belonging, he was active in the anti- apartheid movement. He was shot dead by unknown assailants in 1978, but the perpetrators are suspected in police apparatus.

1972 Turner wrote his book The Eye of the Needle - Towards Participatory Democracy in South Africa, in which he argues for a radically democratic system and a non- racist South Africa. A big influence was his article Dialectical Reason, which he published in the British journal Radical Philosophy, 1973. In the same year he was banned by the South African authorities. He was allowed the Durban region no longer leave his family have not seen and lost his job at the University of Natal.

Nelson Mandela described Turner as " a source of inspiration."

Writings by Rick Turner

  • What is Political Philosophy? , Radical, 1968
  • The Eye of the Needle, 1972
  • Dialectical Reason, Radical Philosophy, No. 4. , 1973
  • The Relevance of Contemporary Radical Thought, SPRO -CAS, 1971 ( PDF, 1.3 MB)

Articles about Rick Turner

  • Rick Turner, SA History Online
  • Philosophy & the Crisis in South Africa, M. A. Nupen, 1988
  • Richard Turner and the Politics of Emancipation (PDF, 1.6 MB), Duncan Greeves, 1987
  • Biographical introduction in ' The eye of the needle ' by Tony Morphet, 1980
  • Eddie Webster, the Durban moment and new labor internationalism, Rob Lambert, 2010
  • Thinking More Than The State Allows: Radical Politics In These troublingly Quiet Times, Taylor Sparrow, Institute for Anarchist Studies, 2011
  • Re - imagining South Africa: Black Consciousness, Radical Christianity and the New Left, 1967 - 1977, Ian McQueen, PhD Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011
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