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Cosmopolitanism

Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

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Cosmopolitanism

By: Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Anthony Appiah's landmark work, featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of "cosmopolitanism", a school of thought that dates to the Cynics of the fourth century BC, Appiah traces its influence on the ethical legacies of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Raised in Ghana, educated in England, and now a distinguished professor in the United States, Appiah promises to create a new era in which warring factions will finally put aside their supposed ideological differences and will recognize that the fundamental values held by all human beings will usher in a new era of global understanding.

©2006 Kwame Anthony Appiah (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Ethics & Morality Globalization History & Theory International Relations Philosophy Political Science Politics & Government Morality Capitalism Socialism Middle Ages Social justice Latin America Imperialism Human Rights
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"A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age." (Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell)
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