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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
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
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.
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"