Cosmopolitanism
Ethics in a World of Strangers
Published on 1. March 2010
224 pages
978-0-393-07971-5 (ISBN)
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"A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell
Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy—as well as the author's own experience of life on three continents—Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a planet we share with more than six billion strangers.More details
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02/2007
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Kwame Anthony Appiah pens the Ethicist column for the New York Times, and is the author of the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism, among many other works. A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, Appiah lives in New York.
Content
- Intro
- Issues of Our Time
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1: The Shattered Mirror
- CHAPTER 2: The Escape from Positivism
- CHAPTER 3: Facts on the Ground
- CHAPTER 4: Moral Disagreement
- CHAPTER 5: The Primacy of Practice
- CHAPTER 6: Imaginary Strangers
- CHAPTER 7: Cosmopolitan Contamination
- CHAPTER 8: Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?
- CHAPTER 9: The Counter-Cosmopolitans
- CHAPTER 10: Kindness to Strangers
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
