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On August 31 we will meet to discuss The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah.
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. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self and shape our polarized world. Yet the collective identities they spawn are riddled with contradictions and cratered with falsehoods. Interweaving argument with narratives to expose the myths behind our collective identities, Kwame Anthony Appiah’s The Lies That Bind explores the nature and history of the identities that define us, and it challenges our assumptions about how identities work.
Raised in Ghana and educated in England, Kwame Anthony Appiah has taught philosophy on three continents and is currently Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. His The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity was a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year in 2018.
