Exile, statelessness, and migration

playing chess with history from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin

Exile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of prominent Jewish intellectuals during the mid-twentieth century-in particular, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Hirschman, and Judith Shklar, as well as Hans Kelsen, Emmanuel Levinas, Gershom Scholem ...

Identities, affiliations, and allegiances

Where do political identities come from, how do they change over time, and what is their impact on political life? This book explores these and related questions in a globalizing world where the nation state is being transformed, definitions of citizenship are evolving in unprecedented ...

El Ser y el Otro en la ética contemporánea

feminismo, comunitarismo y posmodernismo

Con este libro, Benhabib intenta una reconstrucción del legado de la modernidad respondiendo a la siguiente pregunta: ¿qué hay de vivo y qué ha muerto en las teorías morales y políticas universalistas del presente, luego de pasada la modernidad por las críticas hechas, respectivamente, por ...

Los derechos de los otros

extranjeros, residentes y ciudadanos

En "Los derechos de los otros" la autora examina las fronteras de la comunidad política centrándose en la pertenencia a una determinada membresía política: esto es, los principios y prácticas para la incorporación de extranjeros, forasteros, inmigrantes y recién venidos, refugiados y asilados, los cuerpos ...

Pragmatism, critique, judgment

essays for Richard J. Bernstein

The work of Richard J. Bernstein has achieved a groundbreaking synthesis of the analytical and continental modes of thought. Countering the highly technical metaphysical and epistemological puzzles of analytic philosophy in the early 1960s, Bernstein offered a model of philosophy in a democratic society as ...

The rights of others

aliens, residents, and citizens

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 aliens. But when state ...

The claims of culture

Equality and Diversity in the Global Era.

Contents: Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction On the Use and Abuse of Culture 2. "Nous" et les "Autres" (We and the Others) Is Universalism Ethnocentric? 3. From Redistribution to Recognition? The Paradigm Change of Contemporary Politics 4. Multiculturalism and Gendered Citizenship 5. Deliberative Democracy and Multicultural ...