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Indlæser... The Rights of Others (2004)af Seyla Benhabib
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Benhabib engages with traditional Western liberal thinkers to articulate a moderate cosmopolitan position from the perspective of democratic discourse ethics. Although she is at times incisive, notably in her critique of Rawls, at other times her arguments are rather weak. For instance, her misreading of Walzer makes it clear that she refuses to acknowledge that neither democracy nor human rights are culturally neutral or objectively universal. In several places, she forgoes the opportunity to challenge (and even re-inscribes the legitimacy of) the system of global capitalism which is an integral structural component of the inequalities and migratory patterns she is concerned about. ( ) Benhabib argues that "those subject to the laws should also be their authors" and presents how that might become the case through implementation of what she calls "cosmopolitan federalism." The book is very clearly written and well argued. I especially appreciate her descriptions of the paradox, which translates into conflicts on the ground, between the universality of human rights and the necessary territorial closure self-governing polity, which lies at the core of the very concept (and so every implementation) of liberal democracy. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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