Seyla Benhabib

Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor Emerita of Political Science and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Yale University. Her latest book is Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin.

Against False Universals

Seyla Benhabib’s 2024 Adorno Prize lecture.

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Remembering Richard J. Bernstein

The wide-ranging philosopher had the uncanny ability to bring very different traditions into conversation.

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Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach

There is still much to learn from the radical legacy of critical theory.

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Taking Ideas Seriously

Can we distinguish political choices from philosophical truths?

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The Personal Is Not the Political

More than two decades after her death in 1975, Hannah Arendt has emerged as the political theorist of the post-totalitarian moment.

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