Seyla Benhabib

Seyla Benhabib ( born September 9, 1950 in Istanbul ) is a professor of political theory.

Benhabib was born as the daughter of a Sephardic family. She studied at Brandeis University and at Yale philosophy, gaining her doctorate in 1977 on the Hegelian Philosophy of Right. After teaching at Boston University, the State University of New York, the New School for Social Research and from 1993 to 2000 at Harvard University. She is currently working at Yale University, in 2009 she was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin.

My topic is the socio-political history of ideas of the 19th and 20th century, feminist theory and the Frankfurt School in particular.

With its analysis of Hannah Arendt - The melancholy thinker of modernity, they provided the impetus for a re-evaluation of the work and life of the philosopher.

Seyla Benhabib 2009 was awarded the Ernst Bloch Prize, in 2012 the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize and 2014 with the Meister Eckhart price. Since May 2011 she is co-editor of the political- scientific monthly magazine Sheets for German and international politics.

Works

  • Critique, Norm and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory. 1986
  • Cultural diversity and democratic equality. Political Participation in the Age of Globalization ( Horkheimer Lectures ), Frankfurt am Main, 2000 [ reviews: Gerd Roell corner in FAZ, June 2, 1999 Odila Triebel in: Time, September 16, 1999 ]
  • The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt, .1996. German: Hannah Arendt, The melancholy thinker of modernity, Frankfurt / Main 1998, new edition 2005.
  • Feminist contention: A Philosophical Exchange. (together with Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Nancy Fraser ), 1996 German: The dispute over difference: Feminism and Postmodernism in the present, Frankfurt am Main, 1994.
  • German: Even in context, Frankfurt 1995.
  • German: the rights of others, Suhrkamp, ​​2008, ISBN 978-3-518-41998-4
  • German: cosmopolitanism and democracy. A debate. , Campus Verlag, June 2008, ISBN 3-593386402, review
  • Traumatic origins, myths and experiments in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on November 26, 2005
  • No step backwards, but progress., Frankfurter Rundschau, October 2, 2008
  • Heading to a cosmopolitan democracy?, NZZ, June 13, 2009
  • Future of the Middle East. Israel hopelessness. Frankfurter Rundschau, July 24, 2010
  • The guest is always fellow citizens, the Friday, August 25, 2009
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