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Cosmopolitanism

Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

By Kwame Anthony Appiah

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| Paperback | 9780393329339

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"A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age."—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell

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 HContinue

"A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age."—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell

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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  • No pepper today

    Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah 196pp, Allen Lane, £16.99 Prehistoric hunter-gatherers encountered fewer people in a lifetime than we would on a single day walking down New York's Fifth Avenue. Though their wor ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Rubbing along together

    Is what divides mankind more important than what unites it? Are there irreconcilable conflicts between groups of men that can be resolved only by conquest and submission, or worse still by the eradication of one or of some of them? How would the corr ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 224 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 039332933X
  • ISBN-13: 9780393329339
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton
  • Pub date: Feb 26, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1806 mm x 1613 mm x 1290 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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