Exile, Statelessness, and Migration (eBook)

Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin

Seyla Benhabib (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18423-4 (ISBN)

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An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migrationExile, 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, and Leo Strauss. Informed by their Jewish identity and experiences of being outsiders, these thinkers produced one of the most brilliant and effervescent intellectual movements of modernity. Political philosopher Seyla Benhabib's starting point is that these thinkers faced migration, statelessness, and exile because of their Jewish origins, even if they did not take positions on specifically Jewish issues personally. The sense of belonging and not belonging, of being "e;eternally half-other,"e; led them to confront essential questions: What does it mean for the individual to be an equal citizen and to wish to retain one's ethnic, cultural, and religious differences, or perhaps even to rid oneself of these differences altogether in modernity? Benhabib isolates four themes in their works: dilemmas of belonging and difference; exile, political voice, and loyalty; legality and legitimacy; and pluralism and the problem of judgment.Surveying the work of influential intellectuals, Exile, Statelessness, and Migration recovers the valuable plurality of their Jewish voices and develops their universal insights in the face of the crises of this new century.

Autor

Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. Her many books have been translated into more than fourteen languages, and include Dignity in Adversity, The Rights of Others, and The Claims of Culture (Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.9.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Adolf Eichmann • Adorn Prize • Albert Hirschmann • authoritarianism • belonging • Benjaminian moment • Capitalism • Career • Carl Schmitt • Categorical imperative • Citizenship • Civil Rights • Cohabitation • Comparative Advantage • Consideration • counter-publics • creative policy • Critical theory • critique • Decisionism • democratic revolutions • Dialectic of Enlightenment • Didier Fassin • difference • economy • Edmund Husserl • Eichmann in Jerusalem • Emancipatory Politics • Emigration • Epistemology • equal citizenship • ethics • exile • Exiles • Existentialism • Exit • Explanation • facticity • Family • Fragmentation • Frankfurt School • German Idealism • German—Jewish encounter • German Jews • German-Jews • German territories • Gershom Scholem • Good and evil • Hannah Arendt • Hans Kelsen • Hermann Cohen • Historiography • humanitarian reason • hypocrisy • Identity politics • Ideology • imperialism • Institution • Intellectual • Intellectual history • International human rights law • International Law • Isaiah Berlin • Israeli communities • Jacques Rancière • jewish community • Jewish Identity • Jewish Intellectuals • Jewish origin • Jewish origins • Jewish work • Jews • John Rawls • Judaism • Judith Butler • Judith Shklar • Latin America • Lecture • legalism • Legalism (Chinese philosophy) • Legitimacy • Legitimacy (political) • Leo Strauss • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Logical Positivism • Loyalty • Manifesto • Martin Buber • Martin Heidegger • Martin Jay • Marxism • Max Weber • Migration • Modernity • Montesquieu • Morality • nation state • Nazism • Nuremberg Trials • On Revolution • Philosopher • Philosophy • Philosophy of History • political agency • Political Equality • Political Liberalism • political modernity • Political Philosophy • political voice • Politics • popular sovereignty • Positivism • Potentiality and actuality • Pragmatism • Principle • professional institutions • Psychoanalysis • Public sphere • Rationality • Relativism • rights • Rule of Law • Scholem • skepticism • Social Media • Social Science • Socioeconomic Inequality • Søren Kierkegaard • Sovereignty • State • statelessness • Subjectivity • Teleology • Theodor Adorno • Theodor W. Adorno • The Origins of Totalitarianism • theory • The Other Hand • Theses on the Philosophy of History • think anew • Thought • Totalitarianism • traditional methodology • traditional philosophy • Value Pluralism • Voice • Walter Benjamin • wealth redistribution • Westphalian Sovereignty • Westphalian state-system • Wissenschaft des Judentums • World War II • Writing • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18423-2 / 0691184232
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18423-4 / 9780691184234