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