Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
Kwame Anthony Appiah
(Author)
Description
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.Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
February 01, 2007
Pages
224
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.2 X 0.6 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393329339
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About the Author
Kwame Anthony Appiah pens the Ethicist column for the New York Times, and is the author of the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism, among many other works. A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, Appiah lives in New York.
Reviews
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
[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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
