Through Appiah's father, a Nana of the Ashanti people, he is a direct descendant of Osei Tutu, the warrior emperor of pre-colonial Ghana, whose reigning successor, the Asantehene, is a distant relative of the Appiah family. Also among his African ancestors is the Ashanti nobleman Nana Akroma-Ampim I of Nyaduom, a warrior after whom Appiah was named.[13]
Personal life
He lives with his husband, Henry Finder, an editorial director of The New Yorker,[14] in an apartment in Manhattan, and a home in Pennington, New Jersey with a small sheep farm.[10]
Appiah became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1997.[15][16] The actor Adetomiwa Edun is one of his nephews, the son of his sister Amy Appiah.[17][18]
Career
Kwame Anthony Appiah during a lecture and visit to Knox College in 2006.
彼のケンブリッジ大学の博士論文は、確率的意味論の基礎を探求したものであった。1992年、アッピアは『In My Father's House』を出版し、英語によるアフリカ研究のハースコヴィッツ賞を受賞した。彼の後期の著書には、 『Colour Conscious 』(エイミー・ガットマンとの共著)、『The Ethics of Identity』(2005年)、『Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers 』(2006年)などがある。彼はヘンリー・ルイス・ゲイツ・ジュニアと緊密に協力しており、彼と共に『Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience』を編集した。アッピアは1995年にアメリカ芸術科学アカデミーのフェローに選出された。[ 20 ]
Appiah has been influenced by the cosmopolitan philosophical tradition, which stretches from Greek thinkers such as Diogenes to African American thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois, among others. In his article "Education for Global Citizenship", Appiah outlines his conception of cosmopolitanism. He therein defines cosmopolitanism as "universality plus difference". Building from this definition, he asserts that the first takes precedence over the latter, that is: different cultures are respected "not because cultures matter in themselves, but because people matter, and culture matters to people." Accordingly, cultural differences are to be respected in so far as they are not harmful to people and in no way conflict with our universal concern for every human's life and well-being.[27]
In his book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006),[28] Appiah introduces two ideas that "intertwine in the notion of cosmopolitanism" (Emerging, 69). The first is the idea that we have obligations to others that are bigger than just sharing citizenship. The second idea is that we should never take for granted the value of life and become informed of the practices and beliefs of others. Kwame Appiah frequents university campuses to speak to students. One request he makes is, "See one movie with subtitles a month."[29]
In Lies that Bind (2018), Appiah attempts to deconstruct identities of creed, colour, country, and class.[30]
Criticism of Afrocentric world view
Appiah has been a critic of contemporary theories of Afrocentrism. In his 1997 essay "Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism", he argues that current Afrocentricism is striking for "how thoroughly at home it is in the frameworks of nineteenth century European thought", particularly as a mirror image to Eurocentric constructions of race and a preoccupation with the ancient world. Appiah also finds an irony in the conception that if the source of the West lies in ancient Egypt via Greece, then "its legacy of ethnocentrism is presumably one of our moral liabilities."[31]
In popular culture
In 2007, Appiah was a contributing scholar in the PBS-broadcast documentary Prince Among Slaves produced by Unity Productions Foundation.[32]
In 2007, he also appeared in the TV documentary series Racism: A History as an on-screen contributor.[33]
アンソニー・アッピア (1992)、「アフリカのアイデンティティ」、アムセル、ジャン・ルー。アッピア、アンソニー。バガヨゴ、シャカ。ジャン・ピエール・クレティアン。ダクリア、ジョセリン。アーネスト・ゲルナー;ラルー、リチャード。ムディンベ、ヴァランタン=イヴ。Topolski、Jerzy (編)、Constructions identitaires: questionnements théoriques et études de cas、ケベック州: CÉLAT、Université Laval、ISBN9782920576445。フェルナンド・サン・マルタン著、ボグミル・ジュシウィッキーとジョスリン・レトゥルノー著、Actes du Célat No. 6、1992 年 5 月。
Appiah, K. Anthony (2001), "Stereotypes and the shaping of identity", in Post, Robert C. (ed.), Prejudicial appearances: the logic of American antidiscrimination law, Durham: Duke University Press, pp.55–71, ISBN9780822327134.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony (2002), "The State and the shaping of identity", in Peterson, Grethe B. (ed.), The Tanner lectures on human values XXIII, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, pp.235–297, ISBN9780874807189 Pdf. Archived 11 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine
Appiah, Kwame Anthony (2009), "Sen's identities", in Kanbur, Ravi; Basu, Kaushik (eds.), Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume I: Ethics, welfare, and measurement, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp.475–488, ISBN9780199239115.
Journal articles
Appiah, Kwame Anthony (Winter 1981). "Structuralist criticism and African fiction: an analytic critique". Black American Literature Forum. 15 (4): 165–174. doi:10.2307/2904328. JSTOR2904328. S2CID149470070.
— (November 1984). "Generalising the probabilistic semantics of conditionals". Journal of Philosophical Logic. 13 (4): 351–372. doi:10.1007/BF00247710. JSTOR30226312. S2CID21407826.
— (1 July 1985). "Verificationism and the manifestations of meaning". Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume. 59 (1): 17–31. doi:10.1093/aristoteliansupp/59.1.17.
— (Autumn 1985). "The uncompleted argument: Du Bois and the illusion of race". Critical Inquiry. 12 (1): 21–37. doi:10.1086/448319. JSTOR1343460. S2CID162202031.
↑"Biography | Kwame Anthony AppiahKwame Anthony Appiah | Official site of author, lecturer Kwame Anthony Appiah". Retrieved 19 April 2026.
↑"Lecture: Kwame Anthony Appiah - Speaking of Identities | Tilburg University". www.tilburguniversity.edu. Retrieved 19 April 2026.
↑"Kwame Anthony Appiah (Clare 1975)". Cambridge in America. Retrieved 19 April 2026.
↑"Kwame Anthony Appiah | The Guardian". www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 19 April 2026.
↑"BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures - Kwame Anthony Appiah". BBC. Retrieved 19 April 2026.
↑Schuessler, Jennifer (26 November 2013). "Noted Philosopher Moves to N.Y.U.— and Beyond". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 January 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2014.."NYU Law welcomes renowned philosopher Kwame Appiah to the faculty". law.nyu.edu. School of Law, NYU. 26 November 2013. Archived from the original on 15 January 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
↑"Curriculum Vitae | Kwame Anthony Appiah". Retrieved 26 February 2025.
↑"LAPA Faculty Associate: Kwame Anthony Appiah". lapa.princeton.edu. Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Archived from the original on 3 June 2013.
12Weinberg, Justin (28 January 2022). "Appiah Named Next President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters". Archived from the original on 19 March 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
12Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "Biography". appiah.net. Kwame Anthony Appiah. Archived from the original on 3 February 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2011. Professor Appiah has homes in New York city and near Pennington, in New Jersey, which he shares with his partner, Henry Finder, Editorial Director of the New Yorker magazine. (In Pennington, they have a small sheep farm.)
↑ Edeme, Victoria (2022年6月23日). 「ソインカ氏ら9名がケンブリッジ大学の名誉学位を授与される」 . The Punch . 2024年6月16日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。 2022年6月24日閲覧。
↑Aguiar, Annie (8 August 2024). "The Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah Wins Kluge Humanities Prize". The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
Further reading
Levy, Neil, ed. (November 2010). "Special issue: symposium on Anthony Appiah, experiments in ethics". Neuroethics. 3 (3).
Gambone, Philip (2010). Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN9780299236847.
Lee, Christopher J. (2021). Kwame Anthony Appiah. London: Routledge. ISBN9780367229092.
External links
Official website
Appiah's Princeton home page
Appiah's Princeton professional page
An in-depth autobiographical interview with Appiah