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" Beyond blood identities : "
Jason D. Hill.
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993983
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Hill, Jason D.,1965-
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Beyond blood identities : : posthumanity in the twenty-first century /\ Jason D. Hill.
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Lanham, Md. :: Lexington Books,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (x, 251 pages)
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0739138448
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: 9780739138441
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0739138421
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073913843X
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9780739138427
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9780739138434
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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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.
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Culture.
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Ethics.
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Ethnicity.
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Individualism.
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Self (Philosophy)
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Culture.
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Ethics.
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Ethnicity.
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Individualism.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Movements-- Humanism.
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Self (Philosophy)
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128
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BD438.5.H555 2009eb
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