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Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Kwame Anthony Appiah, who has been 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 Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. Professor Appiah writes the “Ethicist” column in the New York Times Magazine.

Kwame Anthony Appiah Books

In Darfur book cover

In Darfur

Muḥammad al-Tūnisī
The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity book cover

The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Cosmopolitanisms book cover

Cosmopolitanisms

Bruce Robbins
The African Trilogy book cover

The African Trilogy

Chinua Achebe
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen book cover

The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Becoming Worthy Ancestors book cover

Becoming Worthy Ancestors

Xolela Mangcu
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl book cover

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Frederick Douglass
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) book cover

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

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Black Skin, White Masks book cover

Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon
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