From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarised world are riddled with contradiction.

Challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. This work revives the ancient philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, which dates back to the Cynics of the…

A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today's complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalism.

Collective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexuality clamor for…

Brings together economists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers for an examination of the practical and ethical implications of slave redemption. This book includes essays by the editors and by Dean Karlan…

Presents an autobiography of the famous abolitionist and statesman who escaped to the North after twenty-one years of enslavement, and reveals the exploitation of American American female slaves through first-person…

Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the…