Becoming a Cosmopolitan

What It Means to Be a Human Being in the New Millennium

AvJason D. Hill

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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As a Jamaican immigrant arriving in the United States at the age of twenty, Jason Hill noticed how often Americans identified themselves in terms of race and ethnicity. He observed, for example, the reluctance of West Indians to joins "black causes" for fear of losing their identity. He began to ask himself what sort of world he wanted to live in, a quest that in time led him to the idea of the cosmopolitan. In Becoming a Cosmopolitan, Jason D. Hill argues that we need a new understanding of the self. He revives the idea of the cosmopolitan, the person who identifies the world as home. Arguing for the right to forget where we came from, Hill proposes a new moral cosmopolitanism for the new millennium.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-12-29
Mått:157 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:9780847697540

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Jason D. Hill is an associate professor of philosophy at De Paul University and author of Beyond Blood Identities.

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An ontological rebel —rejecting the categories that limit our freedom—embracing a morality of becoming, arguing for the merit of forgetting, Hill offers us a new moral imagination.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1. Creating the Self: The Self in Moral Becoming Chapter 5 2. The Existentialist Self: Radically Free and Rebellious Chapter 6 3. Moral Becoming, Moral Masking, and the Narrativity of the Self: Negotiating the Cosmopolitan Terrain Chapter 7 4. Forgetting Where We Came From: The Moral Imperative of Every Cosmopolitan Chapter 8 5. Radical and Moderate Moral Cosmopolitanism Chapter 9 6. Liberalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Communitarianism: Friends or Adversaries Chapter 10 Epilogue: Coming Out as a Moral Cosmopolitan Chapter 11 Appendix: Historical Pictures of Cosmopolitanism Chapter 12 Biblioraphy Chapter 13 Index Chapter 14 About the Author