Beyond blood identities [[electronic resource] ] : posthumanity in the twenty-first century / / Jason D. Hill

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812931703321
• Autore: Hill Jason D. <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-50538-6; 9786612505386; 0-7391-3844-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetti: Self (Philosophy); Identity (Philosophical concept); Individualism; Culture; Ethnicity; Ethics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Moral reasoning from a cosmopolitan perspective : the problem of culture -- Culturalism and moral reasoning -- Towards a moral conceptual base of culture -- Cosmopolitanism : a definition and the question of tolerance -- Who owns culture? : a moral cosmopolitan inquiry -- Culture-faith : the mystification of culture -- Culture-faith applied : cultural privacy and the ownership of native culture -- Counterarguments against applied culture faith : the right to cultural privacy -- Representation without authorization -- Who has the right to speak for whom? -- Ethnocide or culture killings : is it so bad? -- Dismantling the tribes from within : modernization and the capabilities approach -- Moral culture is public culture : cosmopolitanism and culture warfare -- Sylvia Plath : "Daddy" and the creation of moral culture -- Moral incommensurability and the clash of cultures -- The anatomy of antiassimilationism and the logic of contagion -- The cult of death and the worship of ancestry : the genesis of group arcissism -- The psychopathology of tribalism -- The tribalist as moral ; appropriator -- Symbolic ethnicity -- Ethnic versus ethnic : the problem of definition -- Tribalism, untouchability, and human slime -- The art of symbolic necrophilia -- Imagistic and emblematic representations : tribal epistemology and the impossibility of knowing the other -- Moral masochism and Black identity : a tragic tale -- Jim in Africa -- Theorizing posthumanity : radical inclusion, Jews as the chosen people, and the identity politics of St. Paul -- Laissez-faire existential engagement -- Posthuman in the flesh : Jews and the fragility of chosennes -- How God became a cosmopolitan -- The identity politics of St. Paul.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Beyond Blood Identities, Jason D. Hill presents a bold defense of a form of cosmopolitanism according to which only individual persons_not cultures, races, or ethic groups_are the bearers of rights and the possessors of an inviolable status worthy of respect.