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Beyond Blood Identities
Posthumanity in the Twenty-First Century
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2009
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Beyond Blood Identities uncovers the social psychology of those who hold strong blood identities. In this highly original work, Jason D. Hill argues that strong racial, ethnic and national identities, which he refers to as 'tribal identities,' function according to a separatist logic that does irreparable damage to our moral lives. Drawing on scholarship in philosophy, sociology, and cultural anthropology, Hill contends that strong tribalism is a form of pathology. Beyond Blood Identities shows how a particular understanding of culture could lead to a new theoretical approach to enriched human living. Hill develops a new version of cosmopolitanism that he calls post-human cosmopolitanism to solve a number of challenges in contemporary society. From the problem of defining culture, the failure of multiculturalism, the question of who owns native culture, the identification of Jews as post-human people and the problem of their status as 'chosen people' in a modern world, the author applies a cosmopolitan analysis to some of the major problems in our global and interdependent world. He posits a world in which community has been dispensed with and replaced by its successor term sociality_the broad unmarked space in which creative social intercourse takes place. Hill applies a new cosmopolitanism to ideate a new post-humanity for the twenty-first century.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3843-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3844-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
252
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
CHAPTER ONE Moral Reasoning from a Cosmopolitan Perspective No access Pages 19 - 56
CHAPTER TWO Who Owns Culture? No access Pages 57 - 106
CHAPTER THREE Moral Culture Is Public Culture No access Pages 107 - 136
CHAPTER FOUR The Psychopathology of Tribalism No access Pages 137 - 176
CHAPTER FIVE Theorizing Posthumanity No access Pages 177 - 214
APPENDIX Conscientious Objections to Cosmopolitanism No access Pages 215 - 236
