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

Kwame Anthony Appiah

$16.95

Publication Date: February 17th, 2007

Publisher:

W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN:

9780393329339

Pages:

224

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.

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.

Praise for Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

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