Becoming a cosmopolitan [[electronic resource] ] : what it means to be a human being in the new millennium / / Jason D. Hill
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| Autore: |
Hill Jason D. <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Becoming a cosmopolitan [[electronic resource] ] : what it means to be a human being in the new millennium / / Jason D. Hill
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 170 |
| Soggetto topico: | Self (Philosophy) |
| Ethics | |
| Internationalism | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-195) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Becoming a cosmopolitan |
| ISBN: | 1-282-92272-6 |
| 9786612922725 | |
| 1-4422-1055-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460435803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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