Disentangling Consciencism - Essays on Kwame Nkrumah''s Philosophy

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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

Martin Odei Ajei is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Ghana.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Martin Odei Ajei, Martin Odei Ajei
• Con la collaborazione di: Martin Odei Ajei (Editore), Ajei Martin Odei (Editore), Gyekye Kwame (Prefazione)
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781498511537
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1153-7
• Pagine: 374
• Serie: African Philosophy: Critical P; African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue; African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue; African Philosophy: Critical P
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Saggi, articoli culturali, critica letteraria, interviste; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Ghana, English, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, 20th Century, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Literary essays, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -