(It's noteworthy that even the great embodiments of ambition in European fiction—Stendhal's Julien Sorel, say, or Trollope's Phineas Finn—stumble into their careers through a succession of fortuities. Sorel's choice of the black over ...
In this interdisciplinary account of ethics, the claims of individuality and the claims of identity are both taken seriously, to connect moral obligations and collective allegiances, individuality, and identities.
In this beautifully written work, renowned philosopher and African Studies scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions.
This classic book takes seriously both the claims of individuality—the task of making a life—and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves.
This classic book takes seriously both the claims of individuality—the task of making a life—and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves.