Beyond Blood Identities Book

Introduction 1

Ch. 1 Moral Reasoning from a Cosmopolitan Perspective: The Problem of Culture 19

I Culturalism and Moral Reasoning 35

II Toward a Moral Conceptual Base of Culture 42

III Cosmopolitanism: A Definition and the Question of Tolerance 45

Ch. 2 Who Owns Culture? A Moral Cosmopolitan Inquiry 57

I Culture-Faith: The Mystification of Culture 57

II Culture-Faith Applied: Cultural Privacy and the Ownership of Native Culture 65

III Counterarguments against Applied Culture Faith: The Right to Cultural Privacy 72

IV Representation without Authorization 75

V Who Has the Right to Speak for Whom? 78

VI Ethnocide or Culture Killings: Is It So Bad? 81

VII Dismantling the Tribes from Within: Modernization and the Capabilities Approach 90

Ch. 3 Moral Culture Is Public Culture: Cosmopolitanism and Culture Warfare 107

I Sylvia Plath: "Daddy" and the Creation of Moral Culture 108

II Moral Incommensurability and the Clash of Cultures 115

III The Anatomy of Antiassimilationism and the Logic of Contagion 120

IV The Cult of Death and the Worship of Ancestry: The Genesis of Group Narcissism 126

Ch. 4 The Psychopathology of Tribalism 137

I The Tribalist as Moral Appropriator 137

II Symbolic Ethnicity 140

III Ethnic versus Ethnic: The Problem of Definition 144

IV Tribalism, Untouchability, and Human Slime 150

V The Art of Symbolic Necrophilia 155

VI Imagistic and Emblematic Representations: Tribal Epistemology and the Impossibility of Knowing the Other 160

VII Moral Masochism and Black Identity: A Tragic Tale 166

VIII Jim in Africa 171

Ch. 5 Theorizing Posthumanity: Radical Inclusion, Jews as theChosen People, and the Identity Politics of St. Paul 177

I Laissez-Faire Existential Engagement 183

II Posthuman in the Flesh: Jews and the Fragility of Chosenness 188

III How God Became a Cosmopolitan 193

IV The Identity Politics of St. Paul 205

Appendix Conscientious Objections to Cosmopolitanism: A Response 215

Bibliography 237

Index 243

About the Author 243