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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 172.4
EAN: 9780393329339
ISBN: 039332933X
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: February 26, 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
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Editorial Review:
"A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age."—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from HellKwame Anthony Appiah's landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of "cosmopolitanism," a school of thought that dates to the Cynics of the fourth century BC, Appiah traces its influence on the ethical legacies of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Raised in Ghana, educated in England, and now a distinguished professor in the United States, Appiah promises to create a new era in which warring factions will finally put aside their supposed ideological differences and will recognize that the fundamental values held by all human beings will usher in a new era of global understanding.
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Rating:  - A Easy to Read Introduction to an Appealing Ethical System
I have to say I find Appiah's cosmopolitanism to be incredibly appealing. Call me a globalized liberal who thinks we can work most things out, but the fact that besides a bedrock belief in toleration of all but intolerance, there is little else that exists as a absolute in Appiah's thinking is attractive to me.
Appiah (like me, I'd say) is not interested in all encompassing theories. But he is also wary of an all out relativism. Appiah seems to be trying to walk a line somewhere in the ... Read More
Rating: - Culture clashes are not limited to the transnational
This book is a must-read for anyone expecting to engage traditions, ideas, practices and worldviews far outside her own. When I started reading it, I thought it was about globalism. How wrong I was. Well, it IS about living on a multifarious planet, but I found many of the insights useful in understanding local email flamewars which I have witnessed (and perhaps caused), and other local differences of opinion. It has caused me to question some of my own attitudes about communities and beliefs I regard ... Read More
Rating: - Essays by Appiah
This book is a collection of essays around a common theme; each is extremely well written, reflective and accessible to the non-specialist.
Anthony Appiah is surely one of our most important thinkers about ethical issues that arise in common life. He brings unusual color and verve to
his subjects, reflecting a childhood in Ghana and an adult life spent as a true citizen of the world in one of the world's great universities.
Rating: - An importance exploration of what it means to be a responsible part of today's world
There are few individuals more qualified to write a book on the idea of cosmopolitanism than Kwame Anthony Appiah. Biracial, raised in both Ghana and England, multicultural, multilingual, educated at Cambridge but teaching at Princeton, Appiah has an inside familiarity with larger world that few can rival. It is tremendously encouraging to me, a WASP who has been unable to engage in any real travel, that we both seem to share precisely the same ideals. My experience of the world counts for little; his ... Read More
Rating: - Becoming Cosmopolitan
One of the most pernicious ideas has spung from the myth that we are necessarily separated and segregated into groups that are defined by criteria like gender, language, race, religion or some other kind of boundary. And it is easy to see that these boundaries are a major cause of conflict.
The author of this enthralling book - Kwame Anthony Appiah - challenges this kind of separative thinking by resurrecting the ancient philosophy of "cosmopolitanism." This school of thought that dates back ... Read More
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