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

An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migrationExile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of prominent Jewish intellectuals during the mid-twen...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 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 "Right 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
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index