Word: appiah
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...history this book traces, Appiah tells us that cosmopolitan is an idea as old as the Cynics of the fourth century B.C. who coined the expression (if not as old as the first enterprising “australopithici” who stretched and wandered out of Africa). Imported by the Stoics to Rome, where it greatly influenced the forefathers of modern Christianity, it lies close at the heart of Western history...
...Appiah argues, cosmopolitanism is the form of ethical subjectivity to which we, strangers in the world of the twentieth century, must aspire...
...over the “Rest,” but so that we can attempt to emancipate discussions of values from fundamentalism and floundering, inescapable relativism. Not because cultural difference is a myth, but because the vision of the world that would make it insurmountable is, Appiah insists, exaggerated...
...route to our utopic cosmopolis, Appiah suggests, we will also save the arts—in the cosmopolitan model of constant intercourse and “contamination” over authenticity, great works of art are restored to being objects of common worth, the inheritance...
...Kwame Anthony Appiah...