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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) (Issues of Our Time)
by Anthony Appiah
“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Kwame Anthony Appiah’s landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine , challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations . Reviving the ancient philosophy of “cosmopolitanism,” a school of thought that dates to the Cynics of... (more)
Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates
by Peter S. Wenz
On any given night cable TV news will tell us how polarized American politics is: Republicans are from Mars, Democrats are from Canada. But in fact, writes Peter Wenz in Beyond Red and Blue, Americans do not divide neatly into two ideological camps of red/blue, Republican/Democrat, right/left. If they did, what could explain Republicans who oppose the Patriot Act and support gay marriage, or liberals and... (more)