Cosmopolitanism

Ethics in a World of Strangers

By: Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Paperback | 1 February 2007

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Kwame Anthony Appiah's landmark new 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.

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"A welcome attempt to resurrect an older tradition of moral and political reflection and to show its relevance to our current condition." -- 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." -- Thomas Nagel - The New Republic
"Elegantly provocative." -- Edward Rothstein - New York Times
"[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

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