Anthony Appiah

A political and philosophical manifesto considers the ramifications of a world in which Western society is divided from other cultures, evaluating the limited capacity of differentiating societies as compared to the power of a united world.

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

A philosopher argues that the sweeping social changes of the last few centuries, including freedom and equal rights for women, slaves and other oppressed people, comes from the ancient power of honor, not legislation.

How Moral Revolutions Happen

The Honor Code

This text explores the ethical significance of identity, including our gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion and sexuality, for our obligations to others and to ourselves.

The Ethics of Identity

Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)

These essays originally appeared in the journal Critical Inquiry (Summer 1992). Table of contents on: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13003.ctl.

Identities

Henry Louis Gates

"The Encyclopedia of Africa focuses on African history and culture with articles that cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religions, ethnic groups, organizations, and countries throughout Africa"--Provided by publisher.

Encyclopedia of Africa

In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores what it means to be an African American, on the many preconceptions that have muddled discussions of face, Africa, and Afrocentrism since the end of the 19th century. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

In My Father's House

W E B DuBois Professor of Humanities Chair of Afro-American Studies and Director of the W E B DuBois Institute for for Afro-American Research Henry Louis Gates, Jr

A classic of cultural criticism, "Race," Writing, and Difference provides a broad introduction to the idea of "race" as a meaningful category in the study of literature and the shaping of critical theory. This collection demonstrates the variety of critical approaches through which one may discuss the complexities of racial "otherness" in various modes of discourse. Now, fifteen years after their first publication, these essays have managed to escape the cliches associated with the race-class-gender trinity of '80s criticism, and remain a provocative overview of the complex interplay between race, writing, and difference.

"Race," Writing, and Difference

Hurston's first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), earned comments ranging from "most vital" to "a disappointment," although the reviewers consistently praised her use of dialect and language. This unique collection includes reviews of Mules and Men (1935), the first collection of African-American folklore published by an African American. Their Eyes Were Watching God, her 1973 novel that addressed a woman's desire for independence and individuality, was favorably reviewed by Alain Locke, the first Black Rhodes scholar and one of Hurston's professors at Howard University, and unfavorably reviewed by Richard Wright, who testily complained that the book was addressed to a white audience.

Critical Perspectives Past and Present

Zora Neale Hurston

Fred Wilson

A Conversation with K. Anthony Appiah

Philosophie des Weltbürgertums

Der Kosmopolit

Ex-QC and amateur sleuth Sir Patrick Scott, making a sentimental return to the Serenissima with his wife, solves a double murder.

Another Death in Venice

In this newly expanded edition, more than 4,000 articles cover prominent African and African American individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, businesses, religions, ethnic groups, organizations, countries, and more.

The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience

Africana

Wie wir ein gutes Leben erlangen und was es ausmacht, sind die Fragen der Ethik, seit es sie gibt. Doch was, wenn diese Fragen überflüssig sind? Denn Psychologie, Gehirnforschung und Evolutionsbiologie können uns heute genauer denn je erklären, was unser Verhalten bestimmt und unsere moralischen Urteile steuert. Mit seinen gedanklichen Experimenten gewöhnt Kwame Anthony Appiah uns daran, dass philosophische Ethik und empirische Wissenschaft das richtige Leben nur gemeinsam erkunden können. Zugänglich, klar und in seiner funkelnden Schärfe bestechend macht er deutlich, wo die Grenzen der beiden liegen: Die neue empirische Moralforschung kann uns mit ihren Experimenten nur sagen, was wir tatsächlich tun und fühlen, aber nicht, was wir tun oder fühlen sollen. Die Ethik - und jeder Mensch, der ein tugendhaftes Leben sucht - geht hingegen in die Irre, wenn sie das wirkliche Verhalten des Menschen nicht kennt. Appiah öffnet die Türen zwischen Philosophie und Empirie, ohne der Philosophie ihre Dignität zu nehmen. Damit aber kann er auch eine Art des Philosophierens wiederbeleben, die schon die Antike praktiziert hat und die in der westlichen Tradition zu lange vergessen war.

Übungen zum guten Leben

Ethische Experimente

This essential one-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by African-American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Included herein are such classics as Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) and excerpts from W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Harriet A. Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself (1861), Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery (1901), and James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912). Whether read as records of African-American history, autobiography, or literature, these invaluable texts stand as timeless monuments to the courage, intellect, and dignity of those for whom writing itself was an act of rebellion—and whose voices and experiences would have otherwise been silenced forever. Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Appiah, who explains the distinctive American literary and cultural context of the time, this edition of Early African-American Classics remains the standard by which all similar collections will inevitably be compared.

Anthony Appiah

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