{"product_id":"in-my-fathers-house-africa-in-the-philosophy-of-culture-9780195068528","title":"In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture","description":"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\u003cbr\u003eburst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent beliefs in a melting-pot society, race is as much of a problem as ever in America.\u003cbr\u003e In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores, in his words, the possibilities and pitfalls of an African identity in the late twentieth century. In the process he sheds new light on what it means to be\u003cbr\u003ean African-American, on the many preconceptions that have muddled discussions of race, Africa, and Afrocentrism since the end of the nineteenth century, and, in the end, to move beyond the idea of race.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eIn My Father's House\u003c\/em\u003e is especially wide-ranging, covering everything from Pan Africanism, to the works of early African-American intellectuals such as Alexander Crummell and W.E.B. Du Bois, to the ways in which African identity influences African literature. In his discussion of the latter\u003cbr\u003esubject, Appiah demonstrates how attempts to construct a uniquely African literature have ignored not only the inescapable influences that centuries of contact with the West have imposed, but also the multicultural nature of Africa itself. Emphasizing this last point is Appiah's eloquent title\u003cbr\u003eessay which offers a fitting finale to the volume. In a moving first-person account of his father's death and funeral in Ghana, Appiah offers a brilliant metaphor for the tension between Africa's aspirations to modernity and its desire to draw on its ancient cultural roots.\u003cbr\u003e During the Los Angeles riots, Rodney King appeared on television to make his now famous plea: People, can we all get along? In this beautiful, elegantly written volume, Appiah steers us along a path toward answering a question of the utmost importance to us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kwame Anthony Appiah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/27\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 6.13w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195068528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKwame Anthony Appiah\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. His books include \u003cem\u003eAssertion and Conditionals\u003c\/em\u003e (1985), \u003cem\u003eFor Truth in Semantics\u003c\/em\u003e (1986), \u003cem\u003eNecessary Questions\u003c\/em\u003e (1989), and the novel \u003cem\u003eAvenging Angel\u003c\/em\u003e (1991). He is currently editing the \u003cem\u003eOxford Book of African Literature\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40603781562483,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":40.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_1885090c-f7f0-4790-ae71-c115de076e27.jpg?v=1669395726","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/in-my-fathers-house-africa-in-the-philosophy-of-culture-9780195068528","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}