Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah, the president of the PEN American Center, is the author of The Ethics of Identity, Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, The Honor Code and the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism. Raised in Ghana and educated in England, he has taught philosophy on...
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, the president of the PEN American Center, is the author of The Ethics of Identity, Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, The Honor Code and the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism. Raised in Ghana and educated in England, he has taught philosophy on three continents and is currently a professor at Princeton University. He maintains a website at www.appiah.net.
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Birth date: May 08, 1954
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I read it for a class. It wasn't my favourite, but it didn't bore me either. I have to admit that I didn't really understand what Tambu's problem was. She got everything she wanted in the end. We only had to read the book for that class, but we never analised it and it's not the kind of book I usual...
I enjoyed reading this, but strongly disagree with certain premises taken for granted by the contributors - namely the statist idea that there are cases where national sovereignty and maintaining so-called order should take precedence over human rights. I was also confused by the notion that human r...
I wasn’t going to read this book, because I already had one for Zimbabwe and thought it was just another coming-of-age story. Then I read this critical essay, which made me sit up and pay attention. And so I wound up reading the book, which is good, but oh, so depressing.I should say that the books ...
um. objectively, i wish this had more in it. more story, more character development, more plot, more description of what i assume is the author's point, better writing. maybe that's my white western idea of how this novel should be, but there you have it.great review, although i don't agree with ...
Read this for a college course on global problem solving, and it changed my life. He writes in an accessible way about difficult topics and provides helpful frameworks-for-thinking for the reader. Wouldn't have picked this up on my own, so I'm glad someone made me read it.
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