Cosmopolitanism – Ethics in a World of Strangers: 0 (Issues of Our Time) - Softcover

Appiah, Kwame Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039332933X ISBN 13: 9780393329339

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

A welcome attempt to resurrect an older tradition of moral and political reflection and to show its relevance to our current condition.--John Gray

Elegantly provocative.--Edward Rothstein

[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

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

[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

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

About the Author:

Kwame Anthony Appiah, the president of the PEN American Center, is the author of The Ethics of Identity, Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, The Honor Code, and the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism. Raised in Ghana and educated in England, he has taught philosophy on three continents and is currently a professor at Princeton University.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 039332933X
• ISBN 13: 9780393329339
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224