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Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person

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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.
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
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