Cosmopolitanism – Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) - Hardcover

Appiah, Kwame Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393061558 ISBN 13: 9780393061550

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Synopsis

A political and philosophical manifesto considers the ramifications of a world in which western society is divided from all other creeds and cultures, challenging the separatist doctrines espoused by other writers to evaluate the limited capacity of differentiating societies as compared to the power of a united world. By the author of In My Father'

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Review:

A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age. Appiah urges moral action, but he doesn't pretend it comes easily. By weaving storytelling and high principle, he persuades us that in the delicate balancing of universal values and individual needs we can do far, far better (Samantha Power)

About the Author:

Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He was born in Ghana and educated at Cambridge. His previous work includes My Father's House, Thinking it Through and The Ethics of Identity. He is co-editor of Africana.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393061558
• ISBN 13: 9780393061550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256