Another cosmopolitanism
By: Seyla Benhabib ; with commentaries by Jeremy Waldron, Bonnie Honig, Will Kymlicka ; edited and introduced by Robert Post.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Description: In these two important lectures, distinguished political philosopher Seyla Benhabib argues that since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, we have entered a phase of global civil society which is governed by cosmopolitan norms of universal justice--norms which are difficult for some to accept as legitimate since they are sometimes in conflict with democratic ideals. In her first lecture, Benhabib argues that this tension can never be fully resolved, but it can be mitigated through the renegotiation of the dual commitments to human rights and sovereign self-determination. Her second lect.