Beyond blood identities
Subtitle: posthumanity in the twenty-first century
By: Jason D. Hill.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780739138427; 9780739138434; 9780739138441
Subjects: Self (Philosophy); Identity (Philosophical concept); Individualism; Culture; Ethnicity; Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Moral reasoning from a cosmopolitan perspective : the problem of culture; title: Culturalism and moral reasoning; title: Towards a moral conceptual base of culture; title: Cosmopolitanism : a definition and the question of tolerance; title: Who owns culture? : a moral cosmopolitan inquiry; title: Culture-faith : the mystification of culture; title: Culture-faith applied : cultural privacy and the ownership of native culture; title: Counterarguments against applied culture faith : the right to cultural privacy; title: Representation without authorization; title: Who has the right to speak for whom?; title: Ethnocide or culture killings : is it so bad?; title: Dismantling the tribes from within : modernization and the capabilities approach; title: Moral culture is public culture : cosmopolitanism and culture warfare; title: Sylvia Plath : "Daddy" and the creation of moral culture; title: Moral incommensurability and the clash of cultures; title: The anatomy of antiassimilationism and the logic of contagion; title: The cult of death and the worship of ancestry : the genesis of group arcissism; title: The psychopathology of tribalism; title: The tribalist as moral appropriator; title: Symbolic ethnicity; title: Ethnic versus ethnic : the problem of definition; title: Tribalism, untouchability, and human slime; title: The art of symbolic necrophilia; title: Imagistic and emblematic representations : tribal epistemology and the impossibility of knowing the other; title: Moral masochism and Black identity : a tragic tale; title: Jim in Africa; title: Theorizing posthumanity : radical inclusion, Jews as the chosen people, and the identity politics of St. Paul; title: Laissez-faire existential engagement; title: Posthuman in the flesh : Jews and the fragility of chosennes; title: How God became a cosmopolitan; title: The identity politics of St. Paul.