Disentangling consciencism : essays on Kwame Nkrumah's philosophy / edited by Martin Odei Ajei ; foreword by Kwame Gyekye.

Contributor(s):

Ajei, Martin Odei [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: African philosophy, critical perspectives and global dialoguePublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781498511520
149851152X

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Disentangling consciencismDDC classification:

199/.667 23

LOC classification:

DT512.3.N57

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Contents:

Part I. The notion of philosophy in Nkrumah's Consciencism. Conscience in Nkrumah's Consciencism / Kofi Ackah -- The idea of philosophy in Nkrumah's Consciencism / Paulin J. Hountondji -- Consciencism: reading Towa, reading Nkrumah / Tsenay Serequeberhan -- "Consciencisme" / Marcien Towa, translated by Tsenay Serequeberhan -- Nkrumah's philosophy in action: between ideology and ethnophilosophy / Katrin Flikschuh -- Part II. Logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. Categorial conversion in Nkrumah's Consciencism / Stephen C. Ferguson II -- "When everything starts to flow": Nkrumah and Irigaray in search of emancipatory ontologies / Louise du Toit -- Notes on Consciencism: the epistemological break and the notion of Nkrumaism / John H. McClendon III -- The logic of Consciencism / Richmond Kwesi -- Part III. Ethics and social and political philosophy. The ethics of liberation in Nkrumah's Consciencism / M.B. Ramose -- Exploring the ethical foundations of Nkrumah's Consciencism / Thaddeus Metz -- Justice and the retrieval of the African self: the perspective of Consciencism / Martin Odei Ajei -- Africa's resources and might makes right / Leif Wenar -- Consciencism as an expression of Ubuntu / Ezekiel S.N. Mkhwanazi -- Phases of Nkrumah's socialism: Consciencism and beyond / Raymond N. Osei -- Can a nation be a community? / Barry Hallen -- Rooted cosmopolitanism: Jawaharlal Nehru and Kwame Nkrumah / Neera Chandhoke.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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