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Autore: | Hill Jason D. <1965-> |
Titolo: | Beyond blood identities [[electronic resource] ] : posthumanity in the twenty-first century / / Jason D. Hill |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
Disciplina: | 128 |
Soggetto topico: | Self (Philosophy) |
Identity (Philosophical concept) | |
Individualism | |
Culture | |
Ethnicity | |
Ethics | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Beyond blood identities |
ISBN: | 1-282-50538-6 |
9786612505386 | |
0-7391-3844-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910780859403321 |
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