Draws on a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy, to examine the imaginary boundaries people have drawn around themselves and other cultures and to challenge people to redraw those boundaries and appreciate the connections between people of different cultures, religions, and nations.

The shattered mirror -- The escape from positivism -- Facts on the ground -- Moral disagreement -- The primacy of practice -- Imaginary strangers -- Cosmopolitan contamination -- Whose culture is it, anyway? -- The counter-cosmopolitans -- Kindness to strangers.