Becoming a Cosmopolitan

by Hill, Jason D.

• ISBN13: 9780847697540
• ISBN10: 0847697541
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

Becoming a Cosmopolitan argues that we need a new understanding of the self and revives the idea of the cosmopolitan, the person who identifies the world as home.

Author Biography

Jason D. Hill is assistant professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University and a 1999-2000 Society for the Humanities fellow at Cornell University.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
Creating the Self: The Self in Moral Becoming	11	(26)
The Existentialist Self: Radically Free and Rebellious	37	(42)
Moral Becoming, Moral Masking, and the Narrativity of the Self: Negotiating the Cosmopolitan Terrain	79	(16)
Forgetting Where We Came From: The Moral Imperative of Every Cosmopolitan	95	(26)
Radical and Moderate Moral Cosmopolitanism	121	(22)
Liberalism, Cosmopolitanism, Communitarianism: Friends or Adversaries?	143	(16)
Epilogue Coming Out as a Moral Cosmopolitan	159	(4)
Appendix Historical Pictures of Cosmopolitanism	163	(16)
Notes	179	(12)
Bibliography	191	(6)
Index	197	(6)
About the Author	203