Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book. 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. In her recent book the claims of culture, seyla benhabib brings our attention to the politics of cultural identity and the challenges it. Seyla benhabibs book presents a subtly defined, vigorously argued.
Benhabibs model of democracy is firmly rooted in a systematic and welldeveloped moral theory, and her policy recommendations are informed both by extensive philosophical reflection and by her uncompromising commitment to individual identity. Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts about their own boundaries, seyla benhabib challenges the assumption shared by. Advanced ethics an international journal of social, political, and legal philosophy. Equality and diversity in the global era2 as committing these sins and. Equality and diversity in the global era benhabib, seyla on. Seyla benhabibs the claims of culture seeks the appropriate response in demo cratic theory to demands for differential legal or political treatment made in the name of cultural difference. This book brings unparalleled clarity to the contemporary debate over this question. Seyla benhabib is eugene meyer professor of political science and philosophy at yale university. Buy the claims of culture by seyla benhabib from waterstones today.
Her books include transformations of citizenship the spinoza lectures, the reluctant modernism of hannah arendt, and situating the self. 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. Book chapter cultural complexity, moral independence, and the global dialogical community benhabib reconsiders aspects of the cultural relativismuniversalism debate via sociological hypotheses regarding the reproduction and interdependence of cultures. Books seyla benhabib yale campuspress yale university.
How can liberal democracy best be realized in a world fraught. A study of the foundations of critical theory columbia university press, 1986. She is the author of a number of books, including book. 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. Equality and diversity in the global era skip to main content.
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