Seyla Benhabib

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Seyla Benhabib (born September 9, 1950 in Istanbul ) is an American professor of political theory and political philosophy at Yale University . Her subject area is the socio-political history of ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries, feminist theory and the Frankfurt School .

life and work

Seyla Benhabib was born into a Sephardic - Turkish family who had lived in Istanbul since around 1492. She studied philosophy at Istanbul's American College for Girls (BA 1970), then at Brandeis University (BA 1972) and at Yale , where she received her doctorate in 1977 on Hegelian legal philosophy . In the meantime, she was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research into the Living Conditions of the Scientific and Technical World on Lake Starnberg under the directorate of the philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker .

After assistant professorships at Yale (1977 to 1979), at Boston University (1981 to 1985), she held associate professorships for political theory at Harvard (1987–1989) and for philosophy and women's studies at the State University of New York ( Stony Brook ) (1989-1991). In 1991 she became Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research and from 1993 to 2000 of Political Theory at the Department of Government at Harvard University . In 2001 she was appointed to the Eugene Meyer Professorship in Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. In 2009 she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . She received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Utrecht (2004), Valencia (2010) and the Bogazici University in Istanbul (2012) and has taken on visiting professorships such as the Gauss Lectures in Princeton (1998), the Spinoza Chair in Amsterdam (2001), the John Seeley Memorial Lectures in Cambridge (2002) and the Tanner Lectures in Berkeley (2004)

With her analysis Hannah Arendt - The Melancholy Thinker of Modernity , she presented a re-evaluation of the work and life of the political philosopher Hannah Arendt .

Since May 2011 she has been co-editor of the political-scientific monthly magazine Blätter for German and international politics .

Awards

Fonts

  • Natural Right and Hegel: an Essay in Modern Political Philosophy , 1977, OCLC 31211997 (Philosophical Dissertation Yale University 1977, 310 pages).
  • 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 (Horkheim lectures), Frankfurt a. M. 2000 [Reviews: Gerd Roellecke in FAZ, June 2, 1999; Odila Triebel in: Die Zeit, September 16, 1999]
  • The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt , 1996
    • German: Hannah Arendt, Die melancholische Denkerin der Moderne , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-8802-2704-7 ; extended new edition 2006.
  • Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange . (with Judith Butler , Nancy Fraser and Drucilla Cornell ), 1996
    • German: The dispute about difference: Feminism and postmodernism in the present , Frankfurt am M. 1994.
  • Situating the Self. Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics . 1992
    • German: Even in context , Frankfurt a. M. 1995.
  • The Rights of Others. Aliens, Residents, and Citizens , Cambridge University Press, 2004
  • Another Cosmopolitanism , New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
  • Politics in Dark Times: Encounters with Hannah Arendt , Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 0-521-12722-X
  • Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times, (2011)
    • German: Cosmopolitanism without Illusions: Human Rights in Troubled Times, Suhrkamp, ​​2016.
Essays
Interviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Seyla Benhabib, Stanford Presidential Lecture Series in the Humanities and Arts
  2. ↑ Biography based on the Lucas Prize published by Reutlinger Generalanzeiger on February 10, 2012
  3. ^ Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University
  4. ↑ “This German edition dispenses with Chapters 2, 3 and 10 of the English edition, but includes two new chapters (Chapters 3 and 9). For the purpose of publication, some of the essays in this volume have been rewritten and the notes have been shortened and tightened up in many ways. "
personal data
SURNAME Benhabib, Seyla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul