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...individuality is captured in the idea that each of us has to manage in the business of our own life, that it’s a grand thing to be doing, that there are ways to evaluate whether we had done it well or badly,” Appiah told a packed audience at the Harvard Book Store last Thursday night...
...standing room-only audience spilling out of the room at the Harvard Book Store where Appiah spoke, reflected his prominence in academic circles worldwide...
...Appiah rose to the post of African Studies Department chairman by the end of his 11 years at Harvard. But in a move that grabbed headlines around the nation, Appiah left Harvard three years ago to join Princeton’s star-studded philosophy faculty...
While his resignation came only weeks before Cornel R. West ’74 left Harvard after a now-notorious dispute with University President Lawrence H. Summers, Appiah has always insisted that his primary reasons for leaving had nothing to do with the Summers-West flap. Instead, Appiah said he saw the move as a way to eliminate his weekly commute between Boston and New York, where he still lives with his partner...
Despite his status as a veritable academic superstar, Appiah showed up at the Book Store last Thursday—a stone’s throw from his former office, in an unpretentious navy-blue suit, with tortoise shell glasses perched on the end of his nose. He spoke carefully and delicately, with an accent that reflected his own complex identity—Appiah would draw out the “ir” in circle as an Englishman, but would pronounce the “er” in “mother” in the American...