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Book SynopsisThis book critically explores the depths of Nkrumahâs 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.
Table of ContentsForeword 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
