Lines of Descent

Lines of Descent by Kwame Anthony Appiah is a 2014 Philosophy & Religion book written by TED speaker Kwame Anthony Appiah, paired here with the talk they gave.

W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student in Berlin. Germany was the first place white people had treated him as an equal. But anti-Semitism was prevalent, and Du Bois’ challenge, says Kwame Anthony Appiah, was to take the best of German intellectual life without its parochialism—to steal the fire without getting burned.

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