Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person

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