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.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)" (2014), 2M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published the same year as the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 7th of 12 books by Kwame Anthony Appiah on Books Worth Reading (1993–2025), by publication year.
- Edition: Harvard University Press, 2014
- Collections: Time 100 Most Influential
The paired TED talk
Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question) (2014), the TED talk by Kwame Anthony Appiah.
From the publisher
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.
More books by Kwame Anthony Appiah