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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers 540 Book Reviews / African and Asian Studies 6 (2007) 537-552 Kwame Anthony Appiah. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. New York: W. W. Norton; hardcover edition published in 2006; paperback edition, 2007; price not stated. In light of globalization, recent world-wide terrorist activities, and technological advances that have made the world “smaller”, more inter-connected or – as some politicians may call it – a global village, there is a challenge to find moral theories and principles by which to live. In Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers , Princeton University Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah offers what he believes is just such a moral theory that is appli- cable to the world at large. Cosmopolitanism holds that individuals should recognize and value other cultures or ways of life. Whereas many men and women – including the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. – have been led to cosmopolitanism through the fact of human interdependency and the Christian ideal of the brotherhood of man, Professor Appiah comes to cosmopolitanism by embracing the hybridity of modern life. As revealed throughout Cosmopolitanism , the author himself is an example of this hybrid- ity : with a Ghanaian (or African) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African and Asian Studies Brill

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

McCluskey, Malik
African and Asian Studies , Volume 6 (4): 540 – Jan 1, 2007
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540 Book Reviews / African and Asian Studies 6 (2007) 537-552 Kwame Anthony Appiah. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. New York: W. W. Norton; hardcover edition published in 2006; paperback edition, 2007; price not stated. In light of globalization, recent world-wide terrorist activities, and technological advances that have made the world “smaller”, more inter-connected or – as some politicians may call it – a global village, there is a challenge to find moral theories and principles by which to live. In Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers , Princeton University Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah offers what he believes is just such a moral theory that is appli- cable to the world at large. Cosmopolitanism holds that individuals should recognize and value other cultures or ways of life. Whereas many men and women – including the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. – have been led to cosmopolitanism through the fact of human interdependency and the Christian ideal of the brotherhood of man, Professor Appiah comes to cosmopolitanism by embracing the hybridity of modern life. As revealed throughout Cosmopolitanism , the author himself is an example of this hybrid- ity : with a Ghanaian (or African)

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