Kwame Gyekye
Kwame Gyekye (10 November 1939 – 13 April 2019)
Kwame Gyekye
| Naaŋɔ | male  |
|---|---|
| Country of citizenship | Ghana |
| Name in native language | Kwame Gyekye |
| Given name | Kwame |
| Family name | Gyekye |
| Date of birth | 10 Tigerɛ 1939 |
| Date of death | 13 Dawalega 2019 |
| Languages spoken, written or signed | English, Akan |
| Occupation | philosopher, university teacher |
| Field of work | philosophy |
| Employer | Temple University, University of Ghana, University of Florida, Howard University, University of Pennsylvania |
| Position held | chairman of the executive board |
| Educated at | Harvard University, University of Ghana, Akuafo Hall, Mfantsipim School |
| Work location | Ankara |
| Member of | Graphic Communications Group Limited |
| Award received | Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences |
Bibliography
demese- 1975: "Philosophical relevance of Akan proverbs" (Second Order: An African Journal of Philosophy 4:2, pp. 45–53)
- 1977: "Akan language and the materialism thesis: a short essay on the relations between philosophy and language" (Studies in Language 1:1, pp 237 44)
- 1978: "Akan concept of a person" (International Philosophical Quarterly 18:3, pp. 277–87)
- 1987: An Essay on African Philosophical Thought: The Akan Conceptual Scheme
- (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- 1995: revised edition (Philadelphia: Temple University Press) ISBN 1-56639-380-9
- 1988: The Unexamined Life: Philosophy and the African Experience (Ghana Universities Press)
- 1991: "Man as a moral subject: the perspective of an African philosophical anthropology" in The Quest for Man: The Topicality of Philosophical Anthropology, ed. Joris van Nispens & Douwe Tiemersma (Assen/Maastricht, Netherlands: VanGorcum)
- 1992a: (ed. Gyekye & Kwasi Wiredu) Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies 1 (Washington D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy)
- 1992b: "Person and Community" in 1992a
- 1992c: "Traditional political ideas and values" in 1992a
- 1995: "Aspects of African communitarian thought" (The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities)
Secondary literature
demese- "A Defense of Kwame Gyekye’s Moderate Communitarianism", Kibujjo M. Kalumba, Philosophical Papers Volume 49, 2020 - Issue 1.
- "Ethical Thought of Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye", George Kotei Neequaye, The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics.
- "The apparent conflict of transcendentalism and immanentism In Kwame Gyekye And Kwasi Wiredu's interpretation of the Akan concept of God", Ada Agada, Filosofia Theoretica Journal of African Philosophy Culture and Religions 6(1):23-38
- A Critical Exposition of Kwame Gyekye's Communitarianism, O. S. Mwimnobi, Master of Arts thesis submitted in the University of South Africa (2003).