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Becoming a Cosmopolitan: What It Means to Be a Human Being in the New Millennium Kindle Edition

by Jason D Hill (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

The philosopher and author of Beyond Blood Identities offers a new paradigm of persona freedom and moral self-possession.

As a Jamaican immigrant arriving in the United States at the age of twenty, Jason Hill noticed how often Americans identified themselves in terms of race and ethnicity. He observed, for example, the reluctance of West Indians to joins 'black causes' for fear of losing their identity. He began to ask himself what sort of world he wanted to live in, a quest that in time led him to the idea of the cosmopolitan. 

In Becoming a Cosmopolitan, Jason D. Hill argues that we need a new understanding of the self. He revives the idea of the cosmopolitan, the person who identifies the world as home. Arguing for the right to forget where we came from, Hill proposes a new moral cosmopolitanism for the new millennium.
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  1. ISBN-13
    978-1442210554
  2. Publisher
    Stackpole Books
  3. Publication date
    June 14, 2023
  4. Language
    English
  5. File size
    2.6 MB
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Hill (Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville) explores the ethical and philosophical implications of tribalism (ethnic, racial, and national) on society. He argues, "A world that naturalizes whiteness has to maintain racial categories as natural dividers. Such a world is not a morally healthy world for persons of color, nor is it a morally healthy world for whites." Further, "The new millennium has opened against a backdrop of continued racial, ethnic, and nationalistic tensions, or escalating tribalism." Hill calls for a new morality and view of the self--moral cosmopolitanism, which rejects tribalism in favor of an all-encompassing view of the community of humankind. Hill's points are well argued and expertly written, but the sometimes esoteric nature of the book makes it most appropriate for a scholarly audience. This fairly radical approach to multiculturalism is an excellent addition to the collection of any academic library.
-Mark Bay, Univ. of Houston Libs.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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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

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

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

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

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009W3JTBC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stackpole Books (June 14, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 14, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.6 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 218 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Jason D. Hill

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Jason D. Hill is a professor of philosophy at DePaul University and the author of five books: These include, WHAT DO WHITE AMERICANS OWE BLACK PEOPLE? Racial Justice in the Age of Post-Oppression, and the bestselling, We Have Overcome: An Immigrant’s Letter to the American People. Other books include: Becoming a Cosmopolitan: What It Means to Be a Human Being in the New Millennium, Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity: When We Should Not Get Along, and Beyond Blood Identities: Post-humanity in the Twenty First Century. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and has been a professional writer and book author for over thirty years. He is a specialist in ethics, moral psychology, American politics, and foreign policy. He has been published in major magazines including The Federalist, The American Mind, The American Thinker, Commentary Magazine, Spiked Magazine, and Salon. He is also a contributor to The Hill.

HIs poetry has been published in several journals.

Jason D. Hill has lectured and taught extensively on the subject in the United States, Europe and Asia. From 2010-2012, a consortium of four universities in England held a series of conferences devoted to Dr. Hill’s post-human cosmopolitanism and adopted the moral vision contained therein as part of their mission statements. His scholarly articles have been published in anthologies and journals in Germany, the Czech Republic and The Netherlands. In addition, he has written for various magazines and newspapers in which he has brought the tenets of cosmopolitanism to a wide audience. He is also a well respected motivational speaker. He has been interviewed regularly in various media outlets, including NBC’s Today show, The Daily Caller Show, Fox News, Fox Business, Billy O’Reilly’s ‘NO Spin News,’ NPR, and several other mainstream media. He is deeply committed to Moral Foundationalism, Moral Universalism and the absolutism of reason.

Jason came to this country at the age of twenty from Jamaica and has thrived beyond his wildest dreams. He remains incredibly grateful to this country for its bountiful opportunities.

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  • Mayur Thaker
    5.0 out of 5 stars This is a beautiful work.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2005
    I also had the wonderful oppurtunity of taking Dr. Jason D. Hill's multiculturalism class (ISP 200). He teaches the class with two texts, one of them being his own Becoming a Cosmopolitan. Dr Hill is a wonderful person, and his book is almost poetic in nature. He has a profound love for all of humanity and is a very admirable person.

    His book inspires you to look beyond the boundaries of race, color, creed, nationality and gender, and accept everyone as constituents of the human race. Beauty is an intrinsic quality of all human beings, according to Hill.

    His class at DePaul University and his book has given me a new way of seeing and interacting with other people: through moral cosmopolitanism.

    This is a must read to get a full fledged idea of how inherently beautiful humanity is.
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