Kwame Anthony Appiah, Norton, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-07162-7
Rooting his analysis firmly in historical manifestations of honor, Appiah (Cosmopolitanism), a professor of philosophy at Princeton, offers four case studies in what he calls “moral revolutions,” attesting to how altering notions of honor can...
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (207p) ISBN 978-0-312-05817-3
This talky, often slow-moving murder mystery is somewhat redeemed by its evocation of Cambridge University as it is now and as it was earlier in the century. Young viscount David Glen Tannock is found dead in his lodgings at Clare College,...
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Kwame Anthony Appiah. Liveright, $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-631-49383-6
The supposedly eternal categories people use to group themselves into antagonistic collectives are misleading memes of recent vintage, according to this probing critique of identity politics. New York University philosophy professor Appiah (Cosmopoli
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, Author, Anthony Appiah, Author Princeton University Press $45 (384p) ISBN 978-0-691-12036-2
Taking a descriptive rather than a prescriptive view, Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, contends that the principles of John Stuart Mill's philosophy of...
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, Author, Henry Louis Gates, JR., Editor ; series editor, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Norton $24.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-393-06155-0
In a world more interconnected than ever, the responsibilities and obligations we share remain matters of volatile debate. Weighing in on a discourse that includes both visions of "clashing civilizations" and often equally misguided cultural
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, Author, Amy Gutmann, Joint Author, David B. Wilkins, Introduction by Princeton University Press $35 (191p) ISBN 978-0-691-02661-9
Appiah, a Harvard philosophy professor, and Gutmann, dean of the faculty at Princeton, add an academic gloss to two issues already much debated today: the legitimacy of the notion of ""race"" and whether color-blind policies can further justice in...
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Kwame Anthony Appiah. Yale Univ, $32.50 (328p) ISBN 978-0-300-23306-3
In this stimulating intellectual history, Appiah (The Lies That Bind), a philosopher and author of the New York Times Magazine column “The Ethicist,” examines the central importance of the study of religion to the thinkers who established the modern
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