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

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

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Author / Creator:Hill, Jason D., 1965-
Imprint:Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2009.
Description:1 online resource (x, 251 p.)
Language:English
Subject:
Self (Philosophy)
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Individualism.
Culture.
Ethnicity.
Ethics.
Culture.
Ethics.
Ethnicity.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Individualism.
Self (Philosophy)
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403469
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ISBN:9780739138441
9780739138427 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739138421 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739138434 (pbk. : alk. paper)
073913843X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780739138441 (electronic)
0739138448 (electronic)
0739138448
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Beyond blood identities Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2009. 9780739138427 (cloth : alk. paper)
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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