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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

Kwame Anthony Appiah

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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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2007
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 0.60in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9780393329339
  • Categories: • History & Theory - General• Political• Ethics & Moral Philosophy

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About the Author

Appiah, Kwame Anthony: - 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.

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What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? Philosopher and ethicist Kwame Anthony Appiah deepens our understanding of identity and cosmopolitanism through his teachings and writings. Appiah is one of three awardees of Getty's highest honor, the #GettyMedal. https://t.co/5hK9cPk3OZ

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Shephard/Wolf I burn slow 1/2 of @themidnightla 1/1 @tylerlyle moments of liberation via practices of freedom

Cosmopolitanism by Kwame Anthony Appiah is worth reading for everyone. It says roughly that it is as wrong to assume that all truths are valid (relativism) as it is to assume that one truth is exclusively valid (nationalism/fundamentalism). We meet each other in the weird middle. https://t.co/4V9NrRsxxw

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Praise for this book

[Appiah's] belief in having conversations across boundaries, and in recognizing our obligations to other human beings, offers a welcome prescription for a world still plagued by fanaticism and intolerance.--Kofi A. Annan, former United Nations secretary-general
[Appiah's] exhilarating exposition of his philosophy knocks one right off complacent balance.... All is conveyed with flashes of iconoclastic humor.--Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature
An attempt to redefine our moral obligations to others based on a very humane and realistic outlook and love of art.... I felt like a better person after I read it, and I recommend the same experience to others.--Orham Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature
A welcome attempt to resurrect an older tradition of moral and political reflection and to show its relevance to our current condition.--John Gray "The Nation"
Cosmopolitanism is... of wide interest--invitingly written and enlivened by personal history.... Appiah is wonderfully perceptive and levelheaded about this tangle of issues.--Thomas Nagel "The New Republic"
Elegantly provocative.--Edward Rothstein "New York Times"

What people are saying

Mentioner image for: Getty
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@GettyMuseum
2 years

Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? Philosopher and ethicist Kwame Anthony Appiah deepens our understanding of identity and cosmopolitanism through his teachings and writings. Appiah is one of three awardees of Getty's highest honor, the #GettyMedal. https://t.co/5hK9cPk3OZ

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Mentioner image for: Tyler Lyle
Tyler Lyle
@tylerlyle
2 years

Shephard/Wolf I burn slow 1/2 of @themidnightla 1/1 @tylerlyle moments of liberation via practices of freedom

Cosmopolitanism by Kwame Anthony Appiah is worth reading for everyone. It says roughly that it is as wrong to assume that all truths are valid (relativism) as it is to assume that one truth is exclusively valid (nationalism/fundamentalism). We meet each other in the weird middle. https://t.co/4V9NrRsxxw

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