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Princeton philosophy professor Kwame Anthony Appiah begins his newest book “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers,” not unpredictably, with a chapter on “making conversation...
...history this book traces, Appiah tells us that cosmopolitan is an idea as old as the Cynics of the fourth century B.C. who coined the expression (if not as old as the first enterprising “australopithici” who stretched and wandered out of Africa). Imported by the Stoics to Rome, where it greatly influenced the forefathers of modern Christianity, it lies close at the heart of Western history...
...this “Dream Team” was short-lived. West decamped to Princeton after a very public spat with University President Lawrence H. Summers in 2002, and Appiah, who had announced his resignation before West did, accompanied him. Then, last year, Tishman Professor Lawrence D. Bobo left for Stanford with his wife, Professor Marcyliena Morgan, after Summers denied her tenure. Professor Gwendolyn Du Bois Shaw, meanwhile, left to be a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Finally, after Professor Michael C. Dawson returned to the University of Chicago this fall, the bloodletting was over...
Through it all, Gates was the department’s rock. He had been offered a spot at Princeton, like West and Appiah, but instead of jumping ship, chose to stay home and rebuild his relatively tattered department...
Through it all, Gates was the department’s rock. He had been offered a spot at Princeton, like West and Appiah, but instead of jumping ship, chose to stay home and rebuild his relatively tattered department. Happily, three years after deciding to stay on, the House that Gates Built is as sturdy and inviting as ever...