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Identitetsillusionen : lögnerna som binder oss samman
Inbunden, 2019
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
265 kr
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Cosmopolitanism
Ethics in a World of Strangers
Häftad, 2007
205 kr
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Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy—as well as the author's own experience of life on three continents—Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a planet we share with more than six billion strangers.
Captive Gods
Religion and the Rise of Social Science
Inbunden, 2025
228 kr
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Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how early social scientists developed our modern understandings of society through their theories of religionThe foundations of modern social science were built on the study of religion, the acclaimed thinker Kwame Anthony Appiah argues. Delving into the …
Cosmopolitanism
Ethics in a World of Strangers
Häftad, 2007
152 kr
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This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives the ancient philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, which dates back to the Cynics of the 4th century, as a means of understanding the complex world of today. Arguing that we …
Color Conscious
The Political Morality of Race
Av Kwame Anthony Appiah, Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 1998
433 kr
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In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to …
As If
Idealization and Ideals
Häftad, 2019
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
190 kr
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“Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range… [He] has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection… A rich and illuminating book.”—Thomas Nagel, New York Review of BooksIdealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models to make …
Ethics of Identity
Häftad, 2023
176 kr
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A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today’s complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalismCollective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexuality clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. To what …
Becoming Worthy Ancestors
Archive, public deliberation and identity in South Africa
Av Carolyn Hamilton, Benedict Anderson m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
275 kr
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Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and …
Cosmopolitanism
Ethics in a World of Strangers
E-bok, 2015
108 kr
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This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives the ancient philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, which dates back to the Cynics of the 4th century, as a means of understanding the complex world of today. Arguing that we …
In My Father's House
Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
Häftad, 1994
506 kr
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The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst …
Africana: 5-Volume Set
Av Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates
Inbunden, 2005
7643 kr
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Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999. This new, …
Encyclopedia of Africa
Two-volume set
Av Henry Louis Gates, Kwame Anthony Appiah
Inbunden, 2010
4370 kr
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The Encyclopedia of Africa presents the most up-to-date and thorough reference on this region of ever-growing importance in world history, politics, and culture. Its core is comprised of the entries focusing on African history and culture from OUP's acclaimed five-volume Africana - nearly …
Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
Av W. E. B. Du Bois, Kwame Anthony Appiah m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
330 kr
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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's …
In My Father's House
Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
E-bok, 1993
260 kr
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The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst …
In My Father's House
Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
E-bok, 1993
252 kr
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The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst …
Thinking It Through
An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy
E-bok, 2003
752 kr
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Thinking it Through is a thorough, vividly written introduction to contemporary philosophy and some of the most crucial questions of human existence, including the nature of mind and knowledge, the status of moral claims, the existence of God, the role of science, and the mysteries of language. …
Identities
Av Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Häftad, 1996
257 kr
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The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class and gender in feminist, lesbian and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and ethnicity in ethnic and area studies. The work aims …
Captive Gods
Religion and the Rise of Social Science
Häftad, 2026
276 kr
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Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how early social scientists developed our modern understandings of society through their theories of religionThe foundations of modern social science were built on the study of religion, the acclaimed thinker Kwame Anthony Appiah argues. Delving into the …
Honor Code
How Moral Revolutions Happen
Häftad, 2011
156 kr
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In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the most relevant philosophers today" (New York Times Book Review), changes the way we understand human behavior and the way social reform is brought about. In brilliantly arguing that new democratic movements over the last …
Experiments in Ethics
Häftad, 2009
220 kr
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In the past few decades, scientists of human nature—including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, and behavioral economists—have explored the way we arrive at moral judgments. They have called into question commonplaces about character and offered …
Lines of Descent
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity
Inbunden, 2014
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
445 kr
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W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student at the University of Berlin. But Du Bois was also American to his core, scarred but not crippled by the racial humiliations of his homeland. In Lines of Descent, Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois’ American …
The Dictionary of Global Culture: What Every American Needs to Know as We Enter the Next Century--From Diderot to Bo Diddley
Häftad, 1998
335 kr
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Buying Freedom
The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption
Av Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martin Bunzl
Häftad, 2007
339 kr
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If "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their enslavers. But slave redemption is as controversial today as it was in pre-Civil …
Ethics of Identity
Häftad, 2007
305 kr
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Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain …
Buying Freedom
The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption
Av Martin Bunzl, Kwame Anthony Appiah
E-bok, 2018
457 kr
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If "e;slavery"e; is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their enslavers. But slave redemption is as controversial today as it was …
Ethics of Identity
E-bok, 2023
243 kr
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A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today’s complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalism Collective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexuality clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. To what …
Color Conscious
The Political Morality of Race
Av Amy Gutmann, Kwame Anthony Appiah
E-bok, 1998
582 kr
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In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious , K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to …
Ethics of Identity
E-bok, 2010
428 kr
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Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain …
Lies That Bind
Rethinking Identity
Häftad, 2019
121 kr
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We often think identity is personal. But the identities that shape the world, our struggles, and our hopes, are social ones, shared with countless others. Our sense of self is shaped by our family, but also by affiliations that spread out from there, like our nationality, culture, class, race and …
