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...affluence around him. His idea that what we spend money on affects what we don’t spend money on—saving lives, for example—relates closely to Ronell’s considerations of morals in a potentially meaningless existence and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah??s thoughts on what it means to be a cosmopolitan in an ever-shrinking world. Indeed, part of the success of “Examined Life” comes from the flow and interaction between each of the philosophers’ ideas, even though they never meet face-to-face.Taylor...
...Although “Cosmopolitanism” is not as academically ambitious or rigorous as some of Appiah??s previous work (for instance, his “Ethics of Identity” published last year), he provides a thorough and compelling argument. Full of anecdotes and humor, as well as his typically lucid writing, it is a pleasure to read...
...Appiah??s book, one of the first in a new “Issues and Ideas” series being printed by Norton and edited by Dubois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., is emphatically not about that kind of discourse. Nor is it about promoting multiculturalism in the vapid, “Aladdin” sense. Nor “globalization,” exactly—“a term that,” in Appiah??s words, “once referred...
...Rather, Appiah??s subject is the citizen (“polites”) of the cosmos: that is, the citizen who conceives of him or herself not as belonging to the “polis,” a city to which he or she would owe loyalty, but to the universe or the world in a broader sense. The conversation is one above and across cultures—a conversation in which the very idea of essentially distinct cultures cannot be heard over, say, the Iranian shopkeepers of Appiah??s native town of Kumasi...
...times a bit too much like an authorization for “moderns’” strong-arming “locals” into endorsing whatever floodtide of products and practices has overwhelmed them, for my taste, it is hard not to be compelled by Appiah??s final appeal: “The people of the richest nations can do better. This is a demand of simple morality. But it is one that will resonate more widely if we make our civilization more cosmopolitan...