Lines of Descent - W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Kwame Anthony Appiah writes the Ethicist column for The New York Times Magazine. A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, he is the best-selling, award-winning author of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity; Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers; The Ethics of Identity; and The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen.

Zusammenfassung

W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student in Berlin. Germany was the first place white people had treated him as an equal. But anti-Semitism was prevalent, and Du Bois’ challenge, says Kwame Anthony Appiah, was to take the best of German intellectual life without its parochialism—to steal the fire without getting burned.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Appiah Kwame Anthony
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 27.02.2014
• EAN: 9780674724914
• ISBN: 978-0-674-72491-4
• Seiten: 240
• Serie: The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; Ethnic Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Social, Social, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, United States of America, USA, Philosophy and theory of education, Biography: historical, political and military