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Ethics in a World of Strangers
Issues of our Time
W. W. Norton
January 2006
256 pages
ISBN: 0393061558
Hardcover
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Historical | Non-Fiction
A moral manifesto that forces us to reconsider a world
divided between the West and the Rest, Us and
Them.
We have grown accustomed in this anxious,
post-9/11 era to constructing a world fissured by warring
creeds and cultures. Much of humanity now seems separated by
chasms of incomprehension. Kwame Anthony Appiah's landmark
new work challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in
books such as Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of
Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of
"Cosmopolitanism," a school of thought that dates to the
Cynics of the fourth century bce, Appiah traces its
influence on the ethical legacies of the Enlightenment, the
French Revolution, Kant's dream of a "league of nations,"
and the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In doing
so, Appiah shows how Western intellectuals and leaders, on
both the left and the right, have wildly exaggerated the
power of difference�and neglected the power of one. One
world. One species. Challenging years of received wisdom,
Cosmopolitanism is a resounding work of philosophy
and global culture.
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