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Ifeanyi Menkiti’s articulation of an African conception of personhood—especially in “Person and Community in African Traditional Thought” —has become very influential in African philosophy. Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person contributes to the debate in African philosophy on personhood by engaging with various aspects of Menkiti’s account of person and community. The contributors examine this account in relation to themes such as individualism, communalism, rights, individual liberty, moral agency, communal ethics, education, state and nation building, elderhood and ancestorhood. Through these themes, this book, edited by Edwin Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe, shows that Menkiti’s account of personhood in the context of community is both fundamental and foundational to epistemological, metaphysical, logical, ethical, legal, social and political issues in African thought systems.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Edwin Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe

Chapter 1: Caught Between Two Manifestos: Menkiti and an Attempt at a Mediation

Dismas A. Masolo

Chapter 2: Discussions of African Communitarianism with Specific Reference to Menkiti and Rawls

Barry Hallen

Chapter 3: Persons and Citizens

Katrin Flikschuh

Chapter 4: The Sociality of Persons

Edwin Etieyibo

Chapter 5: Personal Persistence and Narrative Unity: The Case of Ancestral Persons

Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe

Chapter 6: Menkiti’s Account of the Social Ontology of African Community and Persons Polycarp Ikuenobe

Chapter 7: African Communitarianism and the Imperative for Moral Education

Michael Onyebuchi Eze

Chapter 8: Community, Individuality, and Reciprocity in Menkiti

Thaddeus Metz

Chapter 9: Elderhood and Ancestorhood: Exemplar of a Person in African Community

Polycarp Ikuenobe and Edwin Etieyibo

Chapter 10: An Outline of Menkiti’s Metaphysical Commitment

Bernard Matolino

Chapter 11: Personhood and State Building in Africa

Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani

Chapter 12: I Can’t Unless You Can

Helen Lauer

Chapter 13: Before a Common Soil: Personhood, Community and the Duty to Bear Witness

Uchenna Okeja

Chapter 14: Who Gets a Place in Person-Space?

Simon Beck and Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe

Chapter 15: Menkiti as a Man of Community

Edwin Etieyibo

Afterword

About the Contributors

Product details

Published 24 Jul 2020
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 286
ISBN 9781498583664
Imprint Lexington Books
Series African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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