{"product_id":"menkiti-on-community-and-becoming-a-person-9781498583657","title":"Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines issues relating to Menkiti’s “Person and Community in African Traditional Thought,” which articulates an African notion of personhood. Contributors not only show that personhood is normative but also explore the implications this notion of personhood and citizenship holds for the nation-state in Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdwin Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Caught Between Two Manifestos: Menkiti and an Attempt at a Mediation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDismas A. Masolo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Discussions of African Communitarianism with Specific Reference to Menkiti and Rawls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarry Hallen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Persons and Citizens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatrin Flikschuh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: The Sociality of Persons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdwin Etieyibo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Personal Persistence and Narrative Unity: The Case of Ancestral Persons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Menkiti’s Account of the Social Ontology of African Community and Persons Polycarp Ikuenobe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: African Communitarianism and the Imperative for Moral Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Onyebuchi Eze \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Community, Individuality, and Reciprocity in Menkiti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThaddeus Metz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Elderhood and Ancestorhood: Exemplar of a Person in African Community \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolycarp Ikuenobe and Edwin Etieyibo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: An Outline of Menkiti’s Metaphysical Commitment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBernard Matolino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Personhood and State Building in Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmmanuel Ifeanyi Ani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: I Can’t Unless You Can\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen Lauer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: Before a Common Soil: Personhood, Community and the Duty to Bear Witness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUchenna Okeja\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: Who Gets a Place in Person-Space?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimon Beck and Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: Menkiti as a Man of Community\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdwin Etieyibo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040840581463,"sku":"9781498583657","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/menkiti-on-community-and-becoming-a-person-9781498583657","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}