Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person

This book examines issues relating to Menkiti's "Person and Community in African Traditional Thought," which articulates an African notion of personhood. Contributors not only show that personhood is normative but also explore the implications this notion of personhood and citizenship holds for the nation-state in Africa.

List of contents

Preface

Introduction

Edwin Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe

Chapter 1: Caught Between Two Manifestos: Menkiti and an Attempt at a Mediation

Dismas A. Masolo

Chapter 2: Discussions of African Communitarianism with Specific Reference to Menkiti and Rawls

Barry Hallen

Chapter 3: Persons and Citizens

Katrin Flikschuh

Chapter 4: The Sociality of Persons

Edwin Etieyibo

Chapter 5: Personal Persistence and Narrative Unity: The Case of Ancestral Persons

Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe

Chapter 6: Menkiti's Account of the Social Ontology of African Community and Persons Polycarp Ikuenobe

Chapter 7: African Communitarianism and the Imperative for Moral Education

Michael Onyebuchi Eze

Chapter 8: Community, Individuality, and Reciprocity in Menkiti

Thaddeus Metz

Chapter 9: Elderhood and Ancestorhood: Exemplar of a Person in African Community

Polycarp Ikuenobe and Edwin Etieyibo

Chapter 10: An Outline of Menkiti's Metaphysical Commitment

Bernard Matolino

Chapter 11: Personhood and State Building in Africa

Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani

Chapter 12: I Can't Unless You Can

Helen Lauer

Chapter 13: Before a Common Soil: Personhood, Community and the Duty to Bear Witness

Uchenna Okeja

Chapter 14: Who Gets a Place in Person-Space?

Simon Beck and Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe

Chapter 15: Menkiti as a Man of Community

Edwin Etieyibo

Afterword

About the Contributors

About the author

Edwin Etieyibo is professor of philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand.



Polycarp Ikuenobe is professor of philosophy at Kent State University.

Product details

• Authors: Edwin Ikuenobe Etieyibo
• Assisted by: Edwin Etieyibo (Editor), Polycarp Ikuenobe (Editor), Ikuenobe Polycarp (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781498583657
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8365-7
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue; African Philosophy: Critical P
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, African History, Political science and theory