In this highly original book, Jason Hill defends a strong form of moral cosmopolitanism and lays the groundwork for a new view of the self. To achieve a radical cosmopolitan identity, he argues it may be necessary to forget aspects of one's racial and ethnic socialization. The idea of forgetting where one came from demands that morally recreated persons disown parts or even all of their cultures if these cultures are oppressive or denigrate human life. Hill draws on existentialism, developmental psychology, and his own experiences as a Caribbean immigrant to the United States to present a philosophy for the new millennium. “An ontological rebel -rejecting the categories that limit our freedom-embracing a morality of becoming, arguing for the merit of forgetting, Hill offers us a new moral imagination.” ―Leonard Harris, Purdue University “The fire of individual freedom that burns for Nietzsche, John Stuart Mill, Dewey and Sartre now sheds light in Jason Hill's Becoming a Cosmopolitan . Hill develops pragmatic, existentialist and narrative accounts of how we can choose and make ourselves, despite prefabricated racial, ethnic and national identities.” ―Naomi Zack, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Albany “impressive study... Becoming a Cosmopolitan is a scholarly treatise on the development of human personality, written from the perspective of a philosopher who has made a thorough analysis of the subject. As an erudite and articulate advocate of the cosmopolitan life, he takes us on an itellectual journey through the realm of philosophy, examining the writitingd of philosophers ancient and modern, on such profound and fundamental issues as the development of self and the process of becoming something better and nobler.” ― Jamaica Gleaner “This is a richly insightful book whose essay-like philosophical argument is embedded in the bearest sketch of a potent biography-one that describes the author's emigration from Jamaica to the United States. The argument is provocative.” ― Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy Jason D. Hill is an associate professor of philosophy at De Paul University and author of Beyond Blood Identities .