Seyla Benhabib (Connecticut Yale University)

The Rights of Others

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 sovereignty is becoming frayed, and national citizenship is unravelling, definitions of political membership become much less clear. Indeed few issues in world politics today are more important, or more troubling. In her Seeley Lectures, the distinguished political theorist Seyla Benhabib makes a powerful plea, echoing Immanuel Kant, for moral universalism and cosmopolitan federalism. She advocates not open but porous boundaries, recognising both the admittance rights of refugees and asylum seekers, but also the regulatory rights of democracies. The Rights of Others is a major intervention in contemporary political theory, of interest to large numbers of students and specialists in politics, law, philosophy and international relations.

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The Rights of Others explores the tension between universal principles of human rights and the self-determination claims of sovereign states as they affect the claims of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants. Few issues in world politics today are more important, or more troubling, but morally acceptable solutions do nonetheless exist.

Produktdetails

• The Seeley Lectures
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780521538602
• ISBN-10: 0521538602
• Artikelnr.: 20887072

Autorenporträt

Seyla Benhabib is one of the leading political theorists in the world today and Eugene Meyer Professor at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. On hospitality: rereading Kant's cosmopolitan doctrine; 2. 'The right to have rights': Hannah Arendt and the contradictions of the nation-state; 3. The law of peoples, distributive justice and migrations; 4. Transformations of citizenship: the case of the European Union; 5. Democratic iterations: the local, the national and the global; Conclusion; References; Index.

Rezensionen

'Every so often one comers across a gem of a book that is thought-provoking; this is one such volume ... its primary value lies in the manner in which it encourages the reader to think about changing perceptions of the world and its citizens ... this book was a prize winner in the North American Society for Social Philosophy's Awards 2004. it deserves to be read widely.' Ethnopolitics