Seyla Benhabib: 12 books
by Seyla Benhabib
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2006
In these two important lectures, distinguished political philosopher Seyla Benhabib argues that since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, we have entered a phase of global civil society which is governed by cosmopolitan norms of universal justice -- norms which are difficult for some to accept...
Exile, Statelessness, and Migration
Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migration
Exile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of prominent Jewish intellectuals during the...
by Seyla Benhabib
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Interpreting the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt rereads Arendt's political philosophy in light of newly gained insights into the historico-cultural background of her work. Arguing against the standard interpretation of Hannah...
The Rights of Others
Aliens, Residents, and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2004
The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership - the principles and practices for incorporating aliens and strangers, immigrants and newcomers, refugees and asylum seekers into existing polities. Boundaries define some as members, others as...
Kritik, Norm und Utopie
Die normativen Grundlagen der Krititschen Theorie
Language: German
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Seyla Benhabib liefert eine sorgfältige Darstellung der philosophischen Fundamente der Kritischen Theorie – eine intensive Befragung ihrer Ideenquellen bei Kant und Hegel und ihrer Entwicklungsgeschichte bis zu Jürgen Habermas. Verglichen mit anderen Werken zu diesem Thema ist die Arbeit der amerikanischen...
Dignity in Adversity
Human Rights in Troubled Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
The language of human rights has become the public vocabulary of our contemporary world. Ironically, as the political influence of human rights has grown, their philosophical justification has become ever more controversial.
Building on a theory of discourse ethics and communicative rationality,...
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics
Themes from Kant and Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination...
The Idea of the Public Sphere
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
The notion of 'the public sphere' has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity. The Idea...
Strong Democracy in Crisis
Promise or Peril?
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This is a robust and relevant collection from a truly distinguished group of political theorists actively rethinking the promise and perils of democracy. The book is coherent in its focus on a common theme and aim: to advance and refine the political project of promoting democratic theory and practice....
by Arthur Melzer, Todd Gitlin, Seyla Benhabib
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001
With the end of the Cold War, the death of Communism, and the decline of Socialism, what are the primary issues, ideologies, and parties that now structure politics? Melzer, Zinman, and Weinberger have compiled essays from prominent experts to examine the politics of the past to help plot the political...
Situating the Self
Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Focusing on contemporary debates in moral and political theory, Situating the Self argues that a non-relative ethics, binding on us in virtue of out humanity, is still a philosophically viable project. This intersting new book should be read by all those concerned with the problems of critical theory,...
Kulturelle Vielfalt und demokratische Gleichheit
Politische Partizipation im Zeitalter der Globalisierung
Language: German
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Die globale Integration unserer Welt ist nicht in Abrede zu stellen. Doch die Kehrseite dieser Globalisierung ist ebenso unübersehbar: Im Namen vielfältiger kultureller Unterschiede – ethnischer, nationaler, sprachlicher, religiöser – formieren sich Gegenbewegungen von politischer Wirkmächtigkeit....