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  • Captive Gods

    Religion and the Rise of Social Science

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Series series The Terry Lectures Series
    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 intellectual currents of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he investigates how formative ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Thinking It Through

    An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Here is a thorough, vividly written introduction to contemporary philosophy and some of the most crucial questions of human existence: the nature of mind and knowledge, the status of moral claims, the existence of God, the role of science, and the mysteries of language, among them. In Thinking It Through, esteemed philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah shows us what it means to "do" philosophy in our ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

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

    Ethics in a World of Strangers

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    “A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from HellKwame Anthony Appiah’s landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of “cosmopolitanism,” a school of thought that dates to the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen

    How Moral Revolutions Happen

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    "[Appiah's] work reveals the heart and sensitivity of a novelist. . . .Fascinating, erudite and beautifully written."—The New York Times Book ReviewIn 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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Identity

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    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 our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • In My Father's House

    Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    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 across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • The Lies that Bind

    Rethinking Identity

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    A Washington Post Notable Book of the YearAs seen on the Netflix series ExplainedFrom the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are riddled with contradiction.Who do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • As If

    Idealization and Ideals

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    “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 sense of the world, and life is a constant adjustment between the models we make and the realities we ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Experiments in Ethics

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Series Book 1 - Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College
    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 troubling explanations for various moral intuitions. Research like this may help explain what, in fact, ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Black Skin, White Masks

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Translated by Richard Philcox ...
    The new translation of the classic work by the author of Wretched of the Earth: "A strange, haunting mélange of analysis [and] revolutionary manifesto" ( Newsweek).Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. This new translation by Richard Philcox makes Fanon ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lines of Descent

    W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Series series The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
    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 experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar’s ideas of ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • Multiculturalism

    (Expanded paperback edition)

    by Charles Taylor, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jürgen Habermas, Stephen C. Rockefeller, Michael Walzer, Susan Wolf ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry, which considers whether the institutions of liberal democratic government make room--or should make room--for ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD