Becoming a Cosmopolitan
What It Means to Be a Human Being in the New Millennium
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:16th Jan '11
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As a Jamaican immigrant arriving in the United States at the age of twenty, Jason Hill noticed how often Americans identified themselves in terms of race and ethnicity. He observed, for example, the reluctance of West Indians to joins "black causes" for fear of losing their identity. He began to ask himself what sort of world he wanted to live in, a quest that in time led him to the idea of the cosmopolitan.
In Becoming a Cosmopolitan, Jason D. Hill argues that we need a new understanding of the self. He revives the idea of the cosmopolitan, the person who identifies the world as home. Arguing for the right to forget where we came from, Hill proposes a new moral cosmopolitanism for the new millennium.
An ontological rebel —rejecting the categories that limit our freedom—embracing a morality of becoming, arguing for the merit of forgetting, Hill offers us a new moral imagination. -- Leonard Harris, Purdue University
The fire of individual freedom that burns for Nietzsche, John Stuart Mill, Dewey and Sartre now sheds light in Jason Hill's Becoming a Cosmopolitan. Hill develops pragmatic, existentialist and narrative accounts of how we can choose and make ourselves, despite prefabricated racial, ethnic and national identities. -- Naomi Zack, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Albany
impressive study...
Becoming a Cosmopolitan is a scholarly treatise on the development of human personality, written from the perspective of a philosopher who has made a thorough analysis of the subject.
As an erudite and articulate advocate of the cosmopolitan life, he takes us on an itellectual journey through the realm of philosophy, examining the writitingd of philosophers ancient and modern, on such profound and fundamental issues as the development of self and the process of becoming something better and nobler.
This is a richly insightful book whose essay-like philosophical argument is embedded in the bearest sketch of a potent biography—one that describes the author's emigration from Jamaica to the United States. The argument is provocative. * Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy *
ISBN: 9781442210417
Dimensions: 230mm x 155mm x 15mm
Weight: 329g
224 pages