GERMAN 56 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Industrial Revolution, Proletariat, Richard Rorty

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Past professorships at yale, cornell, duke, harvard, and princeton. Currently professor of philosophy and law at nyu. Father a renowned politician and lawyer in ghana; mother a celebrated writer and philanthropist. Married to partner since the passing of the marriage equality act in 2011. All of his past experiences, is tough to emulate and identify with. We are not products of blended identities, so it"s hard to identify w/ appiah. Appiah says there is nothing more important than being a cosmopolitanism. People don"t need his background to understand what cosmopolitanism entails. Relies on us being aware of one"s home base using stories to evaluate together what values people hold. In geological terms, it has been a blink of an eye since human beings first left africa, and there are few spots where we have not found habitation. The urge to migrate is no less natural" than the urge to settle.

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