Kwame Anthony Appiah

British-American philosopher and writer

Why Is Kwame Anthony Appiah Influential?

Currently holding a professor appointment at the New York University Department of Philosophy and School of Law, Kwame Anthony Appiah is an influential cultural theorist and philosopher. Appiah completed both his undergraduate studies and PhD in philosophy at Clare College, Cambridge.

Appiah began teaching as a professor in 1981, and has worked at such universities as the University of Ghana, Harvard University, and Princeton University. His writing and philosophy covers topics including ethics, philosophy of language, politics and political systems, culture, and race. This multifaceted approach has resulted in Appiah wielding significant influence in a range of areas. Appiah’s work draws on cosmopolitan philosophy, favoring notions of global citizenship and universalism, and evaluating and building on these ideas in light of cultural differences and racial histories. Appiah argues that the development of culture is dependent on intellectual exchange, which can be hampered or even impeded by capitalism.

For his work, Appiah has received numerous awards and honors, including the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the Ralph J. Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association.

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According to Wikipedia, Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah is a philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Appiah was the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, before moving to New York University in 2014. He holds an appointment at the NYU Department of Philosophy and NYU's School of Law. Appiah was elected President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in January 2022.

Kwame Anthony Appiah's Published Works

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Published Papers

The Ethics of Identity (2005) (1198)
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006) (1041)
Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial? (1991) (499)
Cosmopolitan Patriots (1997) (418)
Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (1996) (324)
The politics of identity (2006) (170)
Thick translation (109)
Struggle for Meaning : Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa (2002) (100)
Ethics in a World of Strangers (2007) (96)
Education for Global Citizenship (2009) (84)
Whose Culture Is It (2006) (78)
Liberalism, Individuality, and Identity (2001) (58)
chapter 6: Education for Global Citizenship (2008) (50)
The Conservation of "Race" (1989) (48)
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity (2018) (41)
Editors' Introduction: Multiplying Identities (1992) (37)
Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy (2003) (37)
As If: Idealization and Ideals (2017) (30)
Navigating the Topology of Race (1994) (27)
Akan and Euro‐American Concepts of the Person (2004) (24)
XV*—HOW TO DECIDE IF RACES EXIST (2006) (24)
Bending towards Justice1 (2008) (20)
“Group Rights” and Racial Affirmative Action (2011) (18)
LIBERAL EDUCATION: THE UNITED STATES EXAMPLE (2003) (17)
Chapter 10. Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? (2010) (16)
5. Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism (2019) (15)
Identity Against Culture: Understandings of Multiculturalism (1994) (14)
Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity (2014) (2020) (12)
Social Postmodernism: African identities (1995) (11)
Relativism : a contemporary anthology (2010) (10)
Against Nacional Culture (1996) (9)
The Bleak Implications of Moral Psychology (2008) (9)
Introduction to Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption (2007) (9)
The Humanities in Human Rights: Critique, Language, Politics (2006) (8)
Causes of Quarrel: What’s Special about Religious Disputes? (2008) (8)
The Rite Stuff (1999) (8)
OLD GODS, NEW WORLDS (2000) (7)
Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (2000) (7)
Language, Race, and the Legacies of the British Empire (2006) (7)
Misunderstanding Cultures: Islam and the West (2012) (7)
More Experiments in Ethics (2010) (6)
Grounding Human Rights (2001) (6)
Europe upside down (1993) (6)
Becoming Worthy Ancestors: Archive, public deliberation and identity in South Africa (2011) (6)
Critical Challenges in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: The Urgency of Agency (2020) (5)
Cosmopolitanism and Convergence (2018) (5)
Cosmopolitan Law (2020) (4)
Boundaries of Culture (2017) (4)
Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Whale@@@In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1993) (4)
Race in the Modern World (2015) (4)
Racial Identity and Racial Identification (2020) (4)
The Content and Context of Hate Speech: What's Wrong with Defamation of Religion? (2012) (3)
Explaining Religion: Notes Toward a Research Agenda (2009) (3)
The Limits of Being Liberal (2005) (3)
The Identity of Education. (2007) (3)
Ethnophilosophy and its critics: a trialogue (1995) (3)
Humane, All Too Humane (2005) (3)
The Democratic Spirit (2013) (3)
Chapter Thirteen. What’s Wrong with Slavery? (2007) (2)
Perspectives on Africa. A Reader in Culture, History and Representation. 2nd Edition. Global Perspectives (1993) (2)
Cosmopolitism and Issues of Ethical Identity (2010) (2)
For Nuruddin Farah (1998) (2)
Experimentos de ética (2010) (2)
The white issue (1998) (2)
Misunderstanding cultures (2012) (2)
Experimental moral psychology (2009) (1)
History of Hatred (2002) (1)
Postcolonial / Postmodern: What's in a Wor(l)d? (1994) (1)
Preliminary thoughts on liberal education1 (1997) (1)
The need for roots (2004) (1)
The Color of Money@@@Race and Culture: A World View. (1995) (1)
Reply to Gracia, Moody‐Adams and Nussbaum (2006) (1)
Sen's Identities (2008) (1)
Language Rights (2006) (1)
Education for Global Citizenship (2008) (0)
International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature (IJSELL) Allegorical Implications of ‘Barabas’ in Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta (2015) (0)
Dogon Art and Architecture (1999) (0)
Reviews Identity and Violence : The Illusion of Destiny (2007) (0)
Chapter One. The Awakening (2014) (0)
Reviews The Honor Code : How Moral Revolutions Happen (2011) (0)
African Art@@@Africa: The Art of a Continent@@@Africa: The Art of a Continent, 100 Works of Power and Beauty (1997) (0)
Call for Papers (2019) (0)
Experiments in Political Theory (2022) (0)
In My Father’s House: Epilogue (2005) (0)
Microsoft Encarta Africana 2000 (2000) (0)
Chapter 4. The Diversity of Diversity (2016) (0)
Capitalism and Human Progress (2015) (0)
1. Does Truth Matter to Identity? (2019) (0)
The Multicultural Lexicon of Appiah and Gates (1997) (0)
The Forest of Reasons (2018) (0)
New Books (2006) (0)
An Unscientific Postscript (2019) (0)
Experiments in ethics (2009) (0)
Chapter Two. Culture and Cosmopolitanism (2014) (0)
A RHETORIC OF QUEEN AND COUNTRY 1 A Rhetoric of Queen and Country: The Ironies of the Introduction to the 2013 Speech from the Throne (2014) (0)
Bibliography (2010) (0)
Ife, Art of the Early Kingdom (1999) (0)
White Mischief@@@The Lives of Beryl Markham. (1993) (0)
The Law of Honor (2017) (0)
The Diversity of Diversity (2016) (0)
The FRIB Decay Station (2019) (0)
For the Humanities (2019) (0)
nial Women, with its reading of how Restoration drama staged issues of both gender and colonialism, makes clear the benefits of bringing a “New World” more centrally into our analysis of early modern English literature (2007) (0)
In Appiah The Honor traces Code: the role How honor Moral has Revolutions played in three Happen, social Kwame transformations Anthony (2016) (0)
Chapter Four. The Mystic Spell (2014) (0)
Giving up the perfect diamond (1993) (0)
Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book (2000) (0)
Chapter Five. The One and the Many (2014) (0)
VIIIASSESSING DEMOCRACY DISCOURSES: A 'Critique of Arms' (2005) (0)
Frederick Luis Aldama, Ed. Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts. Austin: U of Texas P, 2010. viii + 328 pp. (2012) (0)
In defence of honour (2011) (0)
What Is a Science of Religion? (2018) (0)
The Philosophy of Work (2021) (0)
Self-Creation or Self-Discovery? (2020) (0)
Chapter Five. Soul Making (2005) (0)
3. Race, Ethnicity, and Philosophy (2015) (0)
The Importance of Elsewhere (2019) (0)
How to Universalize Liberalism (1998) (0)
‘Alterglobal’ Politics: Postcolonial Theory in the Era of the Anthropocene and the Nonhuman (2018) (0)
Benin, Art of the Early Kingdom (1999) (0)
The hybrid age (1994) (0)
Chapter Three. The Concept of the Negro (2014) (0)
Cosmopolitanism, Translation and Literary Studies (2009) (0)

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