Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
Author(s): Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame 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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Elegantly provocative. . . . Appiah is so sure-footed and gracious in his explorations that one feels engaged, hopeful, advocating his cosmopolitan ambitions. --Edward Rothstein
General Fields
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- : WW Norton & Co
- : WW Norton & Co
- : 0.19
- : 01 February 2007
- : 207mm X 140mm X 15mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 224
- : Paperback
- : Kwame Anthony Appiah