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Beyond blood identities : posthumanity in the twenty-first century /

In Beyond Blood Identities, Jason D. Hill presents a bold defense of a form of cosmopolitanism according to which only individual persons_not cultures, races, or ethic groups_are the bearers of rights and the possessors of an inviolable status worthy of respect.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hill, Jason D., 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Moral reasoning from a cosmopolitan perspective : the problem of culture
  • Culturalism and moral reasoning
  • Towards a moral conceptual base of culture
  • Cosmopolitanism : a definition and the question of tolerance
  • Who owns culture? : a moral cosmopolitan inquiry
  • Culture-faith : the mystification of culture
  • Culture-faith applied : cultural privacy and the ownership of native culture
  • Counterarguments against applied culture faith : the right to cultural privacy
  • Representation without authorization
  • Who has the right to speak for whom?
  • Ethnocide or culture killings : is it so bad?
  • Dismantling the tribes from within : modernization and the capabilities approach
  • Moral culture is public culture : cosmopolitanism and culture warfare
  • Sylvia Plath : "Daddy" and the creation of moral culture
  • Moral incommensurability and the clash of cultures
  • The anatomy of antiassimilationism and the logic of contagion
  • The cult of death and the worship of ancestry : the genesis of group arcissism
  • The psychopathology of tribalism
  • The tribalist as moral appropriator
  • Symbolic ethnicity
  • Ethnic versus ethnic : the problem of definition
  • Tribalism, untouchability, and human slime
  • The art of symbolic necrophilia
  • Imagistic and emblematic representations : tribal epistemology and the impossibility of knowing the other
  • Moral masochism and Black identity : a tragic tale
  • Jim in Africa
  • Theorizing posthumanity : radical inclusion, Jews as the chosen people, and the identity politics of St. Paul
  • Laissez-faire existential engagement
  • Posthuman in the flesh : Jews and the fragility of chosennes
  • How God became a cosmopolitan
  • The identity politics of St. Paul.