Отец —
ашанти
Джозеф Эммануэль Аппиа, дипломат, в 1977—78 годах представлял Гану в ООН, мать — англичанка Пегги Криппс, оба аристократического происхождения. Детство провёл в
Кумаси
, получил среднее и высшее образование в Англии.
Мать — британская аристократка
, урождённая Криппс, дочь
Стаффорда Криппса
.
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. (Trad. esp.: Cosmopolitismo. La ética en un mundo de extraños, Buenos Aires/Madrid, Katz editores S.A, 2007,
ISBN 9788496859081
)
A Dictionary of Global Culture
. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. New York: Knopf, 1996.
Encarta Africana
. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Redmond, Washington:
Microsoft
, 1999.
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience
. Ed. with
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
New York: Basic-Civitas, 1999.
Encarta Africana 2000
. Ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Redmond, Washington: Microsoft, 1999.
The Poetry of our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry
. Ed. by Jeffrey Paine with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Brodsky, Carolyn Forché, and Helen Vendler (Edited and introduced African section.) New York:
HarperCollins Publishers
, 2000.
Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption
Ed. by
and Kwame Anthony Appiah, with an introduction by
. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Избранные эссе
«Understanding reparations: a preliminary reflection». Forthcoming in
Cahiers d’ Etudes Africaine
.
«Stereotypes and the Shaping of Identity.» In
Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Anti-Discrimination Law
by Robert C. Post, with K. Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Thomas C. Grey, and Reva B. Siegel. Durham:
Duke University Press
, 2001. p. 55-71.
«Grounding Human Rights.» In
Human Rights As Politics and Idolatry
by Michael Ignatieff with commentaries by K. Anthony Appiah, David Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur and Diane F. Orentlicher, edited by Amy Gutmann. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. p. 101—116.
"Aufklärung und Dialog der Kulturen, " In
Zukunftsstreit
, ed. by Wilhelm Krull. Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2000. p. 305—328.
«Yambo Ouolouguem and the Meaning of Postcoloniality.» In
Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant
.
(ed.) Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999. p. 55-63.
«Race, Pluralism and Afrocentricity»
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
, 19 (Spring 1998) p. 116—118.
«Identity: Political not Cultural.» In
Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies
. Marjorie Garber, Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Paul B. Franklin (eds.) New York: Routledge, 1997. p. 34-40.
«Is the 'Post-' in 'Postcolonial' the 'Post-' in 'Postmodern'?». In
Dangerous Liaisons
. Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti, Ella Shohat (eds. and introd.) MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. p. 420—444.
«Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections.»
, No.17. Salt Lake City:
, 1996. p. 51-136.
«Philosophy and Necessary Questions.» in
Readings in African Philosophy: An Akan Collection
. Safro Kwame (ed.) Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1995. p. 1-22.
«Identity, Authenticity, Survival: Multicultural Societies and Social Reproduction.» In
Multiculturalism: Examining «The Politics of Recognition.»
An essay by Charles Taylor, with commentary by Amy Gutmann (editor), K. Anthony Appiah,
Jürgen Habermas
, Steven C. Rockefeller, Michael Walzer, Susan Wolf. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. p. 149—164.
«The Impact of African Studies on Philosophy.» With V. Y. Mudimbe. In
The Impact of African Studies on the Disciplines
. Edited by Robert Bates, V. Y. Mudimbe and Jean O’Barr. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1993. p. 113—138.
«African-American Philosophy?»
Philosophical Forum
. Vol. XXIV, Nos. 1-3 (Fall-Spring 1992-93) p. 1-24. Reprinted in African-American Philosophical Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions, p. 11-34. John Pittman (ed.) New York: Routledge, 1997.
«African Identities.» In
Constructions identitaires: questionnements théoriques et études de cas
. Jean-Loup Amselle, Anthony Appiah, Shaka Bagayogo, Jean-Pierre Chrétien, Jocelyne Dakhlia, Ernest Gellner, Richard LaRue,
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
, Jerzy Topolski, Fernande Saint-Martin sous la direction de Bogumil Jewsiewicki et Jocelyn Létourneau Actes du Célat No. 6, Mai 1992. CÉLAT, Université Laval, 1992.
«Introductory Essay.»
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart
. London: Everyman, 1992.
«Inventing an African Practice in Philosophy: Epistemological Issues.» In
The Surreptitious Speech: Présence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness 1947—1987
. V.Y. Mudimbe (ed.) (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1992) pp. 227—237.
«But would that still be me? Notes on gender, `race,' ethnicity as sources of identity.»
The Journal of Philosophy
, Vol. LXXXVII, No. 10 (October 1990) p. 493—499.
«Alexander Crummell and the Invention of Africa.»
The Massachusetts Review
, Vol. XXXI, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990) p. 385—406.
«Tolerable Falsehoods: Agency and the Interests of Theory.» In
Consequences of Theory
. Barbara Johnson & Jonathan Arac (eds.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991 p. 63-90.
«Racisms.» In
Anatomy of Racism
. David Goldberg (ed.) Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1990. p. 3-17.
«Race.» In
Critical Terms for Literary Study
.
& Tom McLaughlin (eds.) Chicago University Press, 1989. p. 274—287.
«Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism.»
The Yale Journal of Criticism
, 2.1, (1988) p. 153—178.
«A Long Way From Home: Richard Wright in the Gold Coast.» In
Richard Wright
. Harold Bloom (ed.) New York: Chelsea House, Modern Critical Views, 1987. p. 173—190.
«Racism and Moral Pollution.»
Philosophical Forum
, Vol. XVIII, Nos. 2-3 (Winter-Spring, 1986—1987. p. 185—202. *"The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race."
Critical Inquiry
, 12, (Autumn 1985).
«Are We Ethnic? The Theory and Practice of American Pluralism.»
Black American Literature Forum
, 20 (Spring-Summer 1986) p. 209—224.
«Deconstruction and the Philosophy of Language.»
Diacritics
, Spring 1986, p. 49-64
«The Importance of Triviality.»
Philosophical Review
, 95 (April 1986) p. 209—231.
«Verificationism and the Manifestations of Meaning.»
Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume
, 59 (1985) p. 17-31.
«Soyinka and the Philosophy of Culture.» In
Philosophy in Africa: Trends and Perspectives
. P.O. Bodunrin (ed.) Ile-Ife:
Press, 1985. p. 250—263.
«Generalizing the Probabilistic Semantics of Conditionals.»
Journal of Philosophical Logic
, 13 (1985) p. 351—372.
«An Argument Against Anti-realist Semantics.»
Mind
93, (October 1984) p. 559—565.
«On Structuralism and African Fiction: An analytic critique.»
Black American Literature Forum
, 15 (Winter 1981). In Black Literature and Literary Theory Henry Louis Gates Jr. (ed.) London: Methuen, 1984. p. 127—150.