Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-1151-3 • Hardback • December 2016 • $122.00 • (£94.00)
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Martin Odei Ajei is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Ghana.
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