Disentangling Consciencism (eBook)

Essays on Kwame Nkrumah's Philosophy

Martin Odei Ajei (Herausgeber)

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2016
374 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1152-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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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Kwame Nkrumah is globally recognized as a foremost pan-Africanist strategist and statesman. He is less widely acknowledged as a philosopher, in spite of his considerable philosophical training, seminal contribution to African political theory, and incisive critique of the ethics of international relations. Consciencism has the distinctive status of being the only published book that Nkrumah consciously meant to be a work of his philosophy, yet it has failed to attract the focused attention of philosophers.The chapters in Disentangling Consciencism: Essays on Kwame Nkrumah's Philosophy critically explore the metaphysical, ethical and political thought expressed in Consciencism. In doing so, they broaden our understanding of his philosophical ideas and their relevance for effective African contribution to thought in a contemporary world in which Africa increasingly totters on the margins of international affairs. In much of current moral and political thinking, there is a tendency to universalize liberal values and neglect non-Western philosophical perspectives. At the same time, global normative thinking is overwhelmingly applied in non-Western contexts. Writing from across three continents, the contributors to this volume establish greater intellectual connection among African, Asian and Western academics, and their chapters offer explicit perspectives on the value of Nkrumah's philosophy, and on the conceptual basis of early post-colonial public policy options in Africa. A valuable appendix provides the text of speeches delivered at the 1964 launch of Consciencism.With insights into numerous dimensions of Nkrumah's philosophy, this volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars of philosophy-especially of non-Western metaphysical, moral and political thought-and to anyone working in the history of African political theory.

Autor

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

Inhalt

Foreword by Kwame GyekyeIntroductionPart One: The Notion of Philosophy in Nkrumah’s ConsciencismChapter One: Conscience in Nkrumah's Consciencism—Kofi AckahChapter Two: The Idea of Philosophy in Nkrumah's Consciencism—Paulin J. HountondjiChapter Three: Consciencism: Reading Towa, Reading Nkrumah—Tsenay SerequeberhanChapter Four: Consciencism—Marcien Towa (tr.Tsenay Serequeberhan)Chapter Five: Conciencism: Nkrumah’s Philosophy in Action: Between Ideology and Ethnophilosophy—Katrin FlikschuhPart Two: Logic, Metaphysics, and EpistemologyChapter 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 ToitChapter Eight: Notes on Consciencism—The Epistemological Break and the Notion of Nkrumaism'—John H. McClendonChapter Nine: The Logic of Consciencism—Richmond KwesiPart Three: Ethics and Social and Political PhilosophyChapter Ten: The Ethics of Liberation in Nkrumah’s Consciencism—Mogobe RamoseChapter Eleven: Exploring the Ethical Foundations of Nkrumah’s Consciencism—Thaddeus MetzChapter Twelve: Justice and Retrieving the African Self: The Perspective of Consciencism—Martin AjeiChapter Thirteen: Africa’s resources and might makes right—Leif WenarChapter Fourteen: Consciencism as an Expression of Ubuntu—Ezekiel MkhwanaziChapter Fifteen: Phases in Nkrumahist Socialism: Consciencism and Beyond—Raymond OseiChapter Sixteen: What does it mean for a Nation to be a Community?—Barry HallenChapter Seventeen: Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Jawaharlal Nehru and Kwame Nkrumah—Neera ChandhokeAppendixAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2016
• Reihe/Serie: African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
• Co-Autor: Richmond Kwesi, Thaddeus Metz, Ezekiel Mkhwanazi, Raymond Osei, Mogobe Ramose, Tsenay Serequeberhan, Louise du Toit, Marcien Towa, Leif Wenar, Kofi Ackah, Martin Odei Ajei, Neera Chandhoke, Katrin Flikschuh, Barry Hallen, Paulin J. Hountondji, Stephen C. Ferguson II, John H. McClendon III
• Vorwort: Kwame Gyekye
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: African personality • African socialism • African Studies • African Union • Decolonization • Dialectics • ethics • Ghana • idealism • ideologies • Ideology • International Relations • Materialism • Metaphysics • pan-Africanism • Political Philosophy • Political Science • political theory • Ubuntu
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1152-X / 149851152X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1152-0 / 9781498511520