A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Seyla benhabib is the eugene meyer professor of political science and philosophy at yale university and was director of the program in ethics, politics and economics 20022008. A conversation with seyla benhabib and judith resnik. Benhabib 2002, princeton university press, chapter six. Seyla benhabib, born in istanbul, turkey, is the eugene. Democracy, demography, and sovereignty seyla benhabib in this article i examine recent debates concerning the emergence of cosmopolitan norms that protect individuals rights regardless of. The democratic moment and the problem of difference, in seyla benhabib, ed. On the one hand, the language of human rights has become the public vocabulary of a conflictridden world which is increasingly growing together. On wednesday, april 15, please join the graduate center philosophy program community for the annual marx wartofsky lecture. Seyla benhabib sexual difference and collective identities. Wolin, jane mansbridge, seyla benhabib, joshua cohen, and iris marion young write on democratic theory.
On legal utopianism and democratic skepticism 2014. Democratic theory professor dustin howes poli 7991. Seyla benhabib was born in istanbul, turkey, where she received her ba in humanities at the american college for girls. Drawing on the work of kants cosmopolitan doctrine and positions developed by hannah arendt, seyla benhabib explores how the topic has been analyzed within the larger history of political thought. Deliberation in ancient greek assemblies is usually interpreted dialogically. In fact, the very binarism between nationals and foreigners, citizens and migrants is sociologically inadequate and the reality is much more fluid, as many citizens are of migrant origin, and many nationals themselves are foreignborn. Benhabib has been at yale since 2002, where she started as the director of its program in ethics, politics, and economics, and was the recipient of the.
Sovereigntists argue that the rapid development of international and transnational treaties and the emergence of regional human rights courts such as the european court of human rights ecthr undermine sovereignty and thus pose a threat to democratic selfdetermination. Professor benhabib was the president of the eastern division of the american. Benhabib is well known for her work in political philosophy, which draws on critical theory and feminist political theory. Beyond deliberative democracy, in benhabib ed democracy and difference seyla benhabib, toward a deliberative model of democratic legitimacy, in democracy and difference. Seyla benhabib, harvard university juergen habermas, postwar europes leading social and political philosopher, started his career more than three. She is eugene mayer professor of political science and philosophy at yale university and was director of the program in ethics, politics, and economics from 20022008. Such arrangements can range from power sharing in legislative as well as judicial organs between diverse cultural groups to multilingual and multicultural media organs, including newspapers, radio, and television.
Click download or read online button to democracy and difference book pdf for free now. There is wideranging disagreement in contemporary discourse about the justification as well as the content of human rights. Seyla benhabib yale university abstract this article has no associated abstract. Human rights in troubled times, seyla benhabib cambridge, mass polity press, 2011, 288 pp. Democracy and difference princeton university press. Seyla benhabib is a turkishborn american philosopher of sephardic ancestry. The contemporary refugee crises alexander aleinikoff, columbia university. Seyla benhabib is the eugene meyer professor of political science and philosophy at yale university and director of the program in ethics, politics, and economics. Cosmopolitanism, notes seyla benhabib, is a frequently invoked concept in modern political philosophy. Seyla benhabib is a turkish jewish professor of political science and philosophy at yale, and director of the program in ethics, politics, and economics, and a wellknown contemporary philosopher. She has written extensively on the philosophers hannah arendt and jurgen habermas, as well as on the topic of human migration. She spoke to the various contingencies of life for such a family including the alltoonormal gender limitations experienced by her mother as well as the remarkable. In this volume, derived from her tanner lectures of 2004, benhabib gives a specific gloss on one particular variant of cosmopolitanism, identifying. Amy gutmann and dennis thompson, democracy and disagreement.
The public sphere, the media and civil society in andras sajo, ed. Benhabib, seyla, democratic sovereignty and transnational law. Lynn sanders, against deliberation, political theory 1997 week fifteen final paper due at 5pm on december 4th. Reflections on the metapolitics of lyotard and derrida. Seyla benhabib transnational democracy and rights across.
She previously taught in the departments of philosophy at boston university, suny stony brook, the new school for social research, and the department of government at harvard university. She argues that many of the issues raised in abstract debate between universalism and multiculturalism can find acceptable solutions in practice. Categories equality, misc in social and political philosophy. Briefe 1925 bis 1975 ursula ludz, editor vittorio klostermann, frankfurt the attack of. Hcol186 topics in democratic theory university of vermont. She previously taught in the departments of philosophy at boston university, suny stony brook, the new school for social research, and the department. 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.
Democracy is about defining the boundaries of a political entity. Contesting the boundaries of the political princeton. Immigration in social and political philosophy categorize this paper options edit this record. Download pdf democracyanddifference free online new. Democracy and difference download democracy and difference ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Thomas journal of dharma 35, 2 apriljune 2010 of religion as critique is such a deep interpretative engagement which. Aliens, residents, and citizens seyla benhabib, eugene meyer professor of political science and philosophy seyla benhabib cambridge university press, nov 25, 2004.
This years talk features seyla benhabib philosophy and political science, yale, presenting democratic sovereignty and transnational law. Democracy, gender, and difference in the french revolution joan b. Contesting the boundaries of the political, princeton university press, 1996, pp. Democracy and difference charles mills the racial contract giorgio agamben homo sacer nonwestern theory confucius analects kautilya arthashatra laws of manu the bhagavad gita the quran alfarabi the perfect state ibn khaldun the muqaddimah mohandas k. This article examines the contemporary debate about the spread of transnational law and its sovereigntist critiques. In a 2004 interview in the berkeley series conversations with history, seyla benhabib reflected on her background as a member of a sephardic jewish family that had lived in istanbul, turkey, since approximately 1492. The new global constellation postmodernism and globalization n retrospect, the term postmodernism, which dominated discussions in the humanities and social sciences in the 1980s and announced a new spirit of the epoch, appears to have captured a play at the level of surfaces only. Contributions to a discourse theory of law and democracy. This volume brings together a group of distinguished thinkers who rearticulate and reconsider the foundations of democratic theory and practice in the light of the politics of identitydifference. Three normative models of democracy, in seyla benhabib, democracy and difference. She has written on a variety of topics ranging from communicative ethics.
By sean rehaag 2 in rights, benhabib takes on a pressing challenge facing contemporary theories of deliberative democracy. Professor benhabib was the president of the eastern division of the american philosophical association in 200607. Joshua cohen, democracy and liberty, in jon elster, ed. Titulo lol iii lllinl tin hitfhtn ofothvnt al ir ti a, rflsidents and citizens residents and citizens by seyla benhabib cambridge. Seyla benhabib is professor of government at harvard university. She then traveled to the united states, where she received her ba in philosophy at brandeis university and her ma and phd in philosophy at yale university. In a democracy, the constitution derives its legitimacy from the united and collective will of this people. The task of democratic equality is to create impartial institutions in the public sphere and civil society where the struggle for the recognition of cultural differences and contestation for cultural narratives can take place without domination. Democracy and the limits of selfgovernment by adam przeworski cambridge up 2010 9780521140119 3.