Disentangling Consciencism

Essays on Kwame Nkrumah's Philosophy
Herausgeber: Ajei, Martin Odei

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Produktbeschreibung

This book critically explores the depths of Nkrumah's philosophical thought in order to broaden understanding of it and measures his contributions to contemporary thought in a world in which Africa totters precariously on the peripheries of intellectual influence on human experience.

Produktdetails

• African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9781498511537
• ISBN-10: 1498511538
• Artikelnr.: 52642290

Autorenporträt

Edited by Martin Odei Ajei - Foreword by Kwame Gyekye - Contributions by Kofi Ackah; Paulin J. Hountondji; Tsenay Serequeberhan; Marcien Towa; Katrin Flikschuh; Stephen C. Ferguson II; Louise du Toit; John H. McClendon III; Richmond Kwesi; Mogobe Ramose;

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Kwame Gyekye Introduction Part One: The Notion of Philosophy in
Nkrumah's Consciencism Chapter One: Conscience in Nkrumah's
Consciencism-Kofi Ackah Chapter Two: The Idea of Philosophy in Nkrumah's
Consciencism-Paulin J. Hountondji Chapter Three: Consciencism: Reading
Towa, Reading Nkrumah-Tsenay Serequeberhan Chapter Four:
Consciencism-Marcien Towa (tr.Tsenay Serequeberhan) Chapter Five:
Conciencism: Nkrumah's Philosophy in Action: Between Ideology and
Ethnophilosophy-Katrin Flikschuh Part Two: Logic, Metaphysics, and
Epistemology Chapter Six: Categorial Conversion: Dialectical Arguments in
Nkrumah's Consciencism-Stephen C. Ferguson II Chapter Seven: "When
everything starts to flow": Nkrumah and Irigaray in search of Emancipatory
Ontologies-Louise du Toit Chapter Eight: Notes on Consciencism-The
Epistemological Break and the Notion of Nkrumaism'-John H. McClendon
Chapter Nine: The Logic of Consciencism-Richmond Kwesi Part Three: Ethics
and Social and Political Philosophy Chapter Ten: The Ethics of Liberation
in Nkrumah's Consciencism-Mogobe Ramose Chapter Eleven: Exploring the
Ethical Foundations of Nkrumah's Consciencism-Thaddeus Metz Chapter Twelve:
Justice and Retrieving the African Self: The Perspective of
Consciencism-Martin Ajei Chapter Thirteen: Africa's resources and might
makes right-Leif Wenar Chapter Fourteen: Consciencism as an Expression of
Ubuntu-Ezekiel Mkhwanazi Chapter Fifteen: Phases in Nkrumahist Socialism:
Consciencism and Beyond-Raymond Osei Chapter Sixteen: What does it mean for
a Nation to be a Community?-Barry Hallen Chapter Seventeen: Rooted
Cosmopolitanism: Jawaharlal Nehru and Kwame Nkrumah-Neera Chandhoke
Appendix About the Contributors