The ethics of identity /

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Author / Creator:Appiah, Anthony.
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
Description:xviii, 358 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5574123
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ISBN:0691120366 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-339) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. The Ethics of Individuality
  • The Great Experiment
  • Liberty and Individuality
  • Plans of Life
  • The Soul of the Servitor
  • Social Choices
  • Invention and Authenticity
  • The Social Scriptorium
  • Ethics in Identity
  • Individuality and the State
  • The Common Pursuit
  • Chapter 2. Autonomy and Its Critics
  • What Autonomy Demands
  • Autonomy as Intolerance
  • Autonomy Agonistes
  • The Two Standpoints
  • Agency and the Interests of Theory
  • Chapter 3. The Demands of Identity
  • Learning How to Curse
  • The Structure of Social Identities
  • Millet Multiculturalism
  • Autonomism, Pluralism, Neutralism
  • A First Amendment Example: The Accommodationist Program
  • Neutrality Reconsidered
  • The Language of Recognition
  • The Medusa Syndrome
  • Limits and Parameters
  • Chapter 4. The Trouble with Culture
  • Making up the Difference
  • Is Culture a Good?
  • The Preservationist Ethic
  • Negation as Affirmation
  • The Diversity Principle
  • Chapter 5. Soul Making
  • Souls and the State
  • The Self-Management Card
  • Rational Well-Being
  • Irrational Identities
  • Soul Making and Stereotypes
  • Educated Souls
  • Conflicts Over Identity Claims
  • Chapter 6. Rooted Cosmopolitanism
  • A Worldwide Web
  • Ruthless Cosmopolitans
  • Ethical Partiality
  • Two Concepts of Obligation
  • Cosmopolitan Patriotism
  • Confrontation and Conversation
  • Rivalrous Goods, Rivalrous Gods
  • Traveling Tales--Globalizing Human Rights
  • Cosmopolitan Conversation
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index