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The Limits of Cosmopolis

Ethics and Provinciality in the Dialogue of Cultures

By: Kathleen Glenister Roberts

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The Limits of Cosmopolis

Ethics and Provinciality in the Dialogue of Cultures

By: Kathleen Glenister Roberts

This book is concerned with cosmopolitanism - a privileged notion of world citizenship - and whether or not a cosmopolitan position is conducive to human flourishing when its preoccupation is aesthetic. The Limits of Cosmopolis addresses the question of how human life is organized: Is it possible to be a citizen of the world? Is there a difference between avowing that identity for oneself and morally and ethically making a commitment to others? What are the implications for communication - for a real dialogue of cultures? Because the identity claim to cosmopolitanism brings particular challe.

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Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

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1453913203

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9781453913208

Alterity and Narrative

Stories and the Negotiation of Western Identities

By: Kathleen Glenister Roberts

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Stories and the Negotiation of Western Identities

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Drawing from the fields of rhetoric, cultural studies, literature, and folkloristics, Kathleen Glenister Roberts argues that identity and the history of alterity in the West can be understood more clearly through narrative motifs. She provides analyses of these motifs including infanticide, universalism, the Tower of Babel, the warrior Other, the noble savage, entropology, and the trickster. With current intellectual conflict as its subtext, this book posits that identity is always negotiated toward Otherness. Roberts interrogates narrative constructions of Western biases toward non-Western Others, with each chapter addressing a Western historical moment through an exemplary narrative. This process shows that by imagining and objectifying Others, Western cultures were creating their own Selves. In confronting the ethnocentrism of past historical moments, Roberts invites us to recognize it in the present—in a new way. Alterity and Narrative asks that we afford Others the ability to transcend their own ethnocentrism, and therefore avoid well-meaning but naïve calls for "cultural sensitivity.

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State University of New York Press

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Alterity and Narrative

Stories and the Negotiation of Western Identities

By: Kathleen Glenister Roberts

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The Limits of Cosmopolis

The Limits of Cosmopolis

Alterity and Narrative

Alterity and Narrative

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