Becoming a cosmopolitan : what it means to be a human being in the new millennium / Jason D. Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Jason D., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy).

Ethics.

Internationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this highly original book, Jason Hill defends a strong form of moral cosmopolitanism and lays the groundwork for a new view of the self. To achieve a radical cosmopolitan identity, he argues it may be necessary to forget aspects of one's racial and ethnic socialization. The idea of forgetting where one came from demands that morally recreated persons disown parts or even all of their cultures if these cultures are oppressive or denigrate human life. Hill draws on existentialism, developmental psychology, and his own experiences as a Caribbean immigrant to the United States to present a phil

Contents:

CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 01. CREATING THE SELF: THE SELF IN MORAL BECOMING; Chapter 02. THE EXISTENTIALIST SELF: RADICALLY FREE AND REBELLIOUS; Chapter 03. MORAL BECOMING, MORAL MASKING, AND THE NARRATIVITY OF THE SELF: NEGOTIATING THE COSMOPOLITAN TERRAIN; Chapter 04. FORGETTING WHERE WE CAME FROM: THE MORAL IMPERATIVE OF EVERY COSMOPOLITAN; Chapter 05. RADICAL AND MODERATE: MORAL COSMOPOLITANISM; Chapter 06. LIBERALISM, COSMOPOLITANISM, COMMUNITARIANISM: FRIENDS OR ADVERSARIES?; EPILOGUE: COMING OUT AS A MORAL COSMOPOLITAN

APPENDIX: HISTORICAL PICTURES OF COSMOPOLITANISMNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-195) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-82-16-22028-2

1-282-92272-6

9786612922725

1-4422-1055-9

OCLC:

705538931