Seyla Benhabib

Seyla Benhabib is Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy Emerita at Yale University. She is an internationally recognized political philosopher whose work on critical theory, Hannah Arendt, democracy, and feminist theory has been translated into fourteen languages. Her book The Rights of Others: Aliens, Citizens and Residents (Cambridge, 2004) won the Ralph Bunche Award of the American Political...See more

Seyla Benhabib is Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy Emerita at Yale University. She is an internationally recognized political philosopher whose work on critical theory, Hannah Arendt, democracy, and feminist theory has been translated into fourteen languages. Her book The Rights of Others: Aliens, Citizens and Residents (Cambridge, 2004) won the Ralph Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association. She is the recipient of the Erst Bloch, Leopold Lucas, and Meister Eckhart prizes, as well as being a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and the British Academy. Her latest book is, Exile, Statelessness and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin (2018). See less