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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Appiah Kwame Anthony
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2014
• EAN: 9780674724914
• ISBN: 978-0-674-72491-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; 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