| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
African philosophy, critical perspectives and global dialogue |
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African philosophy, critical perspectives and global dialogue
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972 -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972 fast |
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Pan-Africanism.
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National liberation movements -- Africa -- Philosophy
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Pan-Africanism
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Political and social views
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Politics and government
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Ghana -- Politics and government -- 1957-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054772
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| Subject |
Africa
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Ghana
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ajei, Martin Odei, editor
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| LC no. |
2016047580 |
| ISBN |
9781498511520 |
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149851152X |
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