Becoming a Cosmopolitan

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

AvJason D. Hill

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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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:2011-01-16
Mått:155 x 230 x 15 mm
Vikt:329 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781442210417

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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 PrefaceChapter 2 AcknowledgementsChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 1. Creating the Self: The Self in Moral BecomingChapter 5 2. The Existentialist Self: Radically Free and RebelliousChapter 6 3. Moral Becoming, Moral Masking, and the Narrativity of the Self: Negotiating the Cosmopolitan TerrainChapter 7 4. Forgetting Where We Came From: The Moral Imperative of Every CosmopolitanChapter 8 5. Radical and Moderate Moral CosmopolitanismChapter 9 6. Liberalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Communitarianism: Friends or AdversariesChapter 10 Epilogue: Coming Out as a Moral CosmopolitanChapter 11 Appendix: Historical Pictures of CosmopolitanismChapter 12 BiblioraphyChapter 13 IndexChapter 14 About the Author