Becoming a Cosmopolitan: What it Means to be a Human Being in the New Millennium

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In this highly original book, Jason Hill defends a strong form of moral cosmopolitanism and lays the groundwork for a new view of the self. To achieve a radical cosmopolitan identity, he argues it may be necessary to forget aspects of one's racial and ethnic socialization. The idea of forgetting where one came from demands that morally recreated persons disown parts or even all of their cultures if these cultures are oppressive or denigrate human life. Hill draws on existentialism, developmental psychology, and his own experiences as a Caribbean immigrant to the United States to present a philosophy for the new millennium.

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In this highly original book, Jason Hill defends a strong form of moral cosmopolitanism and lays the groundwork for a new view of the self. To achieve a radical cosmopolitan identity, he argues it may be necessary to forget aspects of one's racial and ethnic socialization. The idea of forgetting where one came from demands that morally recreated persons disown parts or even all of their cultures if these cultures are oppressive or denigrate human life. Hill draws on existentialism, developmental psychology, and his own experiences as a Caribbean immigrant to the United States to present a philosophy for the new millennium.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 16 Jan 2011
ISBN 10: 1442210419
ISBN 13: 9781442210417

Media Reviews

The fire of individual freedom that burns for Nietzsche, John Stuart Mill, Dewey, and Sartre now sheds light in Jason Hill's Becoming a Cosmopolitan. Hill develops pragmatic, existentialist, and narrative accounts of how we can choose and make ourselves, despite prefabricated racial, ethnic and national identities. -- Naomi Zack,, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Albany
Impressive study. . . . Becoming a Cosmopolitan is a scholarly treatise on the development of human personality, written from the perspective of a philosopher who has made a thorough analysis of the subject. As an erudite and articulate advocate of the cosmopolitan life, he takes us on an intellectual journey through the realm of philosophy, examining the writings of philosophers ancient and modern on such profound and fundamental issues as the development of self and the process of becoming something better and nobler. * Jamaica Gleaner, July 16, 2000 *
This is a richly insightful book whose essay-like philosophical argument is embedded in the barest sketch of a potent biography-one that describes the author's emigration from Jamaica to the United States. The argument is provocative. * Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy *
An ontological rebel rejecting the categories that limit our freedom, embracing a morality of becoming, arguing for the merit of forgetting, Hill offers us a new moral imagination. -- Leonard Harris, Purdue University

Author Bio

Jason D. Hill is an associate professor of philosophy at De Paul University and author of Beyond Blood Identities.