I am a South African writer, teacher, student of literature and philosophy.
I write as a critic of the madness into which so much of our world has descended, while exploring political, historical, cultural, and religious questions that have been criminally neglected or deliberately misunderstood.
The books:
Rage and Love: A Memoir of White South Africa in an Age of Destruction
Rage and Love is the story of a society’s descent into madness and destruction – and the beauty and fire that still live on.
It is the story of a white South African living through the end of apartheid, the rise of rainbow politics, and the covid event’s attack on youth and joy; a memoir of a life lived in privilege and heartbreak, in vitality and decay, in a world frequently denounced but rarely understood.
The Word and the Flame: Reconciling Nietzsche with Christ
Friedrich Nietzsche is often remembered as the great destroyer of Christianity: the philosopher who declared the death of God and unleashed modern nihilism. But what if Nietzsche’s war was never against the sacred itself, but against a decaying civilisation that had reduced transcendence to morality, comfort and bureaucratic order?
The Word and the Flame on Amazon
The Word and the Flame on Takealot
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