ISBN:
9780231559560
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (461 pages)
Series Statement:
New Directions in Critical Theory v.84
DDC:
301.01
Abstract:
This book brings together an ensemble of leading theorists and younger voices to explore new dimensions of Seyla Benhabib's thought across critical theory, feminism, and democratic theory, foregrounding the intricate relationship between critique and universality.
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: In Search of Another Universalism, by Anna Jurkevics -- Part I: Critique, Norm, and Utopia -- 1. Benhabib and Habermas on Discourse and Development, by Thomas McCarthy -- 2. Normativity and Reality: Toward a Critical and Realistic Theory of Politics, by Rainer Forst -- 3. Loss of World, Not Certainty: "Amor Mundi" and the Moral Psychology of Seyla Benhabib, by Carmen Lea Dege -- 4. Nature as a Concrete Other: An Alternative Voice in Kant's Conception of Beauty and Dignity, by Umur Basdas -- 5. "To Burst Open the Possibilities of the Present": Seyla Benhabib and Utopia, by Bernard E. Harcourt -- Part II: Thinking With and Against Arendt -- 6. "Thinking With and Against" as Feminist Political Theory, by Patchen Markell -- 7. Arendt and Truth, by Gaye İlhan Demiryol -- 8. Understanding Eichmann and Anwar: Reenactment and the Psychic Lives of Perpetrators, by Sonali Chakravarti -- Part III: Democratic Iterations and Cosmopolitanism -- 9. Democracy Without Shortcuts: An Institutional Approach to Democratic Legitimacy, by Cristina Lafont -- 10. Another Republicanism: Dissent, Institutions, and Renewal, by Christian Volk -- 11. Three Models of Communicative Cosmopolitanism, by Peter J. Verovšek -- 12. At the Borders of the Self: Democratic Iterations as a Theory of Postnational Sovereignty, by Paul Linden-Retek -- Part IV: Jurisgenerativity -- 13. Back to the Future? Critical Theory and the Law, by William E. Scheuerman -- 14. The Unfinished Revolution: The Right to Have Rights and Birthright Citizenship, by Eduardo Mendieta -- 15. Genocide and Jurisgenesis, by Max Pensky -- 16. Jurisgenerativity in the Age of Big Data, by Matthew Longo -- Part V: Deprovincializing Critical Theory -- 17. Pachamama's Rights, Climate Crisis, and the Decolonial Cosmos, by Angélica María Bernal.
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