Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Overview

“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell

Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy—as well as the author's own experience of life on three continents—Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a planet we share with more than six billion strangers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393329339
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	02/17/2007
Series:	Issues of Our Time
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	487,491
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Kwame Anthony Appiah pens the Ethicist column for the New York Times, and is the author of the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism, among many other works. A professor of philosophy and law at New York University, Appiah lives in New York.

Editorial Reviews

"A welcome attempt to resurrect an older tradition of moral and political reflection and to show its relevance to our current condition."

The Nation - John Gray

"Cosmopolitanism is... of wide interest—invitingly written and enlivened by personal history.... Appiah is wonderfully perceptive and levelheaded about this tangle of issues."

The New Republic - Thomas Nagel

"Elegantly provocative."

New York Times - Edward Rothstein

"[Appiah's] exhilarating exposition of his philosophy knocks one right off complacent balance.... All is conveyed with flashes of iconoclastic humor."

Nadine Gordimer

"[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."

Kofi A. Annan

"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."

Orham Pamuk