Ali Kashani

Radical Generosity (eBook, ePUB)

Resisting Xenophobia, Considering Cosmopolitanism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this bold and original work, Ali Kashani argues that the rise of the far right political discourse, xenophobia, and the current immigration and refugee crisis indicate that existing values, norms, and practices are inadequate. Thus, it is vital to critique and resist existing values and norms that produce ultra-nationalistic and xenophobic practices. Thus, radical generosity is crucial and necessary. The concept of radical generosity opens the possibility for the transformation of ethical and political practices and a move toward cosmopolitanism. Kashani develops the concept of radical generosity as a social and political practice and as an original grounding for cosmopolitanism, as both an ethical and political transformative practice-and as a critique to resist the rise of the far right political discourse and xenophobia. Radical Generosity suggests, a new way to bridge ethical and political practices and moves beyond ethical subjectivity by Derrida and Levinas and draws inspiration from the Stoics, Aristotle's virtue ethics , radicalized by Nietzsche's concept of magnanimity with anarchist tendencies,and Marx's idea of praxis as social transformative practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498575348
• Artikelnr.: 56797848

Autorenporträt

Ali Kashani teaches philosophy and political theory at San Francisco State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Radical Generosity and the Origins of Cosmopolitanism
Chapter Two: Radical Generosity as Unconditional Ethics
Chapter Three: The Practice of Radical Generosity
Chapter Four: The Possibility of Cosmopolitanism n the Realm of Political
Institutions
Chapter Five: Final Remarks and Conclusion