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'Every so often one comers across a gem of a book that is thought-provoking; this is one such volume … its primary value lies in the manner in which it encourages the reader to think about changing perceptions of the world and its citizens … this book was a prize winner in the North American Society for Social Philosophy's Awards 2004. it deserves to be read widely.' Ethnopolitics
'Benhabib's The Rights of Others shows - unflinchingly, astutely and bravely - that immigration remains such a pitched battle in the West because it is part of a larger war of ideas.' The Nation
'Benhabib's book does political theory great service: it attends to the consequences of the empirical realities of the “fraying of state sovereignty” and the 'disaggregation or unbundling of citizenship', and it makes an impassioned, theoretically substantiated plea for the “need to decriminalize the worldwide movement of peoples, and treat each person, whatever his or her political citizenship status, in accordance with the dignity of moral personhood.' Political Theory
'… an important contribution to the literature on global justice, offering a promising defense of the cosmopolitan ideal of porous (if not open) borders.' Human Rights Review
'The value of Benhabib's The Rights of Others is in fostering discourse between the theories underlying our political and ethical order and the needs of migrants … Hers is a bold statement to theorists that engagement is needed with people as yet neglected in their work… A bold contribution to a dialogue central to refugee studies.' Journal of Refugee Studies
'With this book, Benhabib has done philosophers and political theorists an important service by directing our attention to a crucial issue of global justice; her incisive analysis will no doubt set the stage for the debate that should by all rights follow.' Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
'… a rare and remarkable combination of informed political theorizing and contemporary empirical application to real world challenges.' Dario Castiglione, University of Exeter
'… passionately argued and extremely well informed. … her insights are always provocative and penetrating.' Radical Philosophy Review
'… an important and compelling attempt to connect developments in political theory with efforts to extend citizen rights and protections.' Gerald Mara, Georgetown University
'Benhabib's The Rights of Others shows - unflinchingly, astutely and bravely - that immigration remains such a pitched battle in the West because it is part of a larger war of ideas.' The Nation
'Benhabib's book does political theory great service: it attends to the consequences of the empirical realities of the “fraying of state sovereignty” and the 'disaggregation or unbundling of citizenship', and it makes an impassioned, theoretically substantiated plea for the “need to decriminalize the worldwide movement of peoples, and treat each person, whatever his or her political citizenship status, in accordance with the dignity of moral personhood.' Political Theory
'… an important contribution to the literature on global justice, offering a promising defense of the cosmopolitan ideal of porous (if not open) borders.' Human Rights Review
'The value of Benhabib's The Rights of Others is in fostering discourse between the theories underlying our political and ethical order and the needs of migrants … Hers is a bold statement to theorists that engagement is needed with people as yet neglected in their work… A bold contribution to a dialogue central to refugee studies.' Journal of Refugee Studies
'With this book, Benhabib has done philosophers and political theorists an important service by directing our attention to a crucial issue of global justice; her incisive analysis will no doubt set the stage for the debate that should by all rights follow.' Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
'… a rare and remarkable combination of informed political theorizing and contemporary empirical application to real world challenges.' Dario Castiglione, University of Exeter
'… passionately argued and extremely well informed. … her insights are always provocative and penetrating.' Radical Philosophy Review
'… an important and compelling attempt to connect developments in political theory with efforts to extend citizen rights and protections.' Gerald Mara, Georgetown University
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The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership - the principles and practices for incorporating aliens and strangers, immigrants and newcomers, refugees and asylum seekers into existing polities. Boundaries define some as members, others as aliens. But when state sovereignty is becoming frayed, and national citizenship is unravelling, definitions of political membership become much less clear. Indeed few issues in world politics today are more important, or more troubling. In her Seeley Lectures, the distinguished political theorist Seyla Benhabib makes a powerful plea, echoing Immanuel Kant, for moral universalism and cosmopolitan federalism. She advocates not open but porous boundaries, recognising both the admittance rights of refugees and asylum seekers, but also the regulatory rights of democracies. The Rights of Others is a major intervention in contemporary political theory, of interest to large numbers of students and specialists in politics, law, philosophy and international relations.
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The Rights of Others is a very straight forward book, it explain in plain language why people should have rights because they are human not because they are citizens of certain countries. She goes through the evolution of this cosmopolitan right starting with Kant and Hanna Arendt. The first two chapters are dedicated to setting a background and only after that the rest of the book focuses of her reasoning of why should others have a claim right in different countries.
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An excellent theoretical exposition on resolving the tension between democratic sovereignty & human rights
3 Jan 2007
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Professor Benhabib's analysis of the relationship between citizenship and community membership provides an innovative and exceedingly compelling way of navigating the conflicting claims of human rights and democratic sovereignty. Drawing heavily on Arendt and Kant, this study traces the conceptual basis for current theoretical problems while also attending to the contemporary situation. Perhaps most fascinating is Benhabib's usage of discourse ethics and her notion of 'democratic iterations' to move beyond the impasse posed by the false dichotomy of communitarian and cosmopolitan ideals-- in a sense, as long as we construe democratic sovereignty in a way that eschews claims to a permanent unchanging people there need not be any contradiction between maintaining cosmopolitan obligations and respecting communal claims. Though I have some minor personal qualms with Professor Benhabib's interpretation of Arendt, I found 'The Rights of Others' to be an amazing read that combined insightful interpretations of political thought with astute observations of our global situation. A must read for those interested in global justice, cosmopolitanism and human rights theory.
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1 May 2008
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There's a lot to like in this book. The discussion of Hannah Arendt's idea of the "right to have rights" and of Kant's views on cosmopolitanism are very good and useful to anyone interested in either thinker or in human rights. The invocation of Derrida to develop an idea of cosmopolitan democracy was interesting even if somewhat obscure. (I didn't think that invoking Derrida's idea of 'iteration' helped at all but then the idea is not clear to me so perhaps that's the problem.) The discussion of Rawls is, however, no good at all as Benhabib gets both the point and the structure of Rawls's _Law of Peoples_ almost completely wrong. If that part is skipped, however, this is a very interesting book both for it's discussion of historical figures and for its engagement with current problems such as citizenship, immigration, and cosmopolitanism.
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