Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin

Benhabib, Seyla,

Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin - xvi, 282 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-270) and index.

Intertwined lives and themes among Jewish exiles -- Equality and difference: human dignity and popular sovereignty in the mirror of political modernity -- The elusiveness of the particular: Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno -- Whose trial? Adolf Eichmann's or Hannah Arendt's? The Eichmann controversy revisited -- Ethics without normativity and politics without historicity: on Judith Butler's Parting Ways. Jewishness and the critique of Zionism -- From the "Rights to have rights" to the "Critique of humanitarian reason" -- Legalism and its paradoxes in Judith Shklar's work -- Exile and social science: on Albert Hirschman -- Isaiah Berlin: a Judaism between decisionism and pluralism -- Conclusion: the universal and the particular, then and now.

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1900-1999


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Jews--Politics and government--20th century.
Intellectuals--20th century.
Jewish diaspora.
Jewish philosophy.
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Jewish diaspora.
Jewish philosophy.
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Jews--Politics and government.
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Jews--Intellectual life--20th century.
Jews--Politics and government--20th century.
Intellectuals--20th century.
Jewish diaspora.
Jewish philosophy.

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