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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 acce[...]

This timely reader in moral philosophy addresses a controversy that strongly affected recent European reflections on the relevance of ethics for theories of democratic institutions and democratic legitimacy. The debate centers around the idea of a communicative ethics as articulated by Jurgen Haberm[...]

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 al[...]

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 Hanna[...]

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, this[...]

In The Rights of Others, Benhabib argues that the transnational movement of people across the globe has brought to the fore fundamental dilemmas facing liberal democracies: tension between a state's commitment to universal human rights, and to its sovereign self-determination and its claims to regul[...]

Moderna samhällen är genompluralistiska och föreställningen om en etik baserad i en homogen social gemenskap är illusorisk - det finns ingen väg tillbaka till »den förtrollade världen». Istället gäller det att ta dialogmodellen på allvar och utforma en »interaktiv universalism» som ut[...]

I det sista av tre migrationsnummer pratar Trifa Shakely och Mara Lee med löständer i munnen, Fabrizio Gatti blickar tillbaka på tio års flyktingkatastrofer, Lawrence Abu Hamdan kartlägger språktester, Seyla Benhabib kritiserar det humanitära förnuftet, Ann-Marie Tung Hermelin läser sin mam[...]

This outstanding collection of essays explores Hannah Arendt's thought against the background of recent world-political events unfolding since September 11, 2001, and engages in a contentious dialogue with one of the greatest political thinkers of the past century, with the conviction that she remai[...]