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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers Reprint Edition
Author(s): Kwame Anthony Appiah (Author)
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date: February 17, 2007
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 039332933X
- ISBN-13: 9780393329339
Book Description
“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”―Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
― 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.”
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“Elegantly provocative.”
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“[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.”
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“[Appiah’s] exhilarating exposition of his philosophy knocks one right off complacent balance…. All is conveyed with flashes of iconoclastic humor.”
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“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.”
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