Cosmopolitanism Ethics In A World Of Strangers (issues Of Our Time) [Paperback]

Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophyas well as the author's own experience of life on three continentsA welcome attempt to resurrect an older tradition of moral and political reflection and to show its relevance to our current condition.Cosmopolitanism is... of wide interestinvitingly written and enlivened by personal history.... Appiah is wonderfully perceptive and levelheaded about this tangle of issues.Elegantly provocative.[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.[Appiah's] exhilarating exposition of his philosophy knocks one right off complacent balance.... All is conveyed with flashes of iconoclastic humor.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.A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.Samantha Power, author of