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Seyla BENHABİB

Seyla Benhabib is a Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and also serves at Columbia University's Department of Modern Critical Thought and Columbia Law School. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, she graduated from the American Girls College in 1970, obtained her bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in 1972, and her doctorate from Yale University in 1977. From 1980 to 1985, she was a member of the Alexander von Humboldt Academy, working in the research team of Jürgen Habermas in Munich and Frankfurt.

He served as President of the Eastern Region of the American Philosophical Foundation from 2006-07 and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1995. He served as Director of the Social Studies Program at Harvard University from 1996 to 2000, and as Director of the Ethics, Politics, and Economics program at Yale from 2002 to 2008.

He has taught at the New School for Social Research and Harvard University and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge (The Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorships); European University Institute, Tel-Aviv University; University of Frankfurt and University of Amsterdam.

Professor Benhabib's awards include the Ernst Bloch Prize (2009), the Leopold Lucas Prize (2012), the Meister Eckhart Prize (2014), and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2011-12), as well as the University of Utrecht, Georgetown, Geneva and Boğaziçi University. He has honorary titles from. From Hegel to Habermas; Hannah Arendt; She has written and edited more than 15 books in the fields of discourse ethics, feminist theory and human rights, and her books have been translated into 12 languages.

His books translated into Turkish include Modernism, Universality and the Individual (Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul, 1992), Rights of Others (İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 2016), Criticism, Norm and Utopia (İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 2005) and Dignity in the Age of Depression, Human Rights in Difficult Times (İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 2005). Koç University Publications, 2017).

His books: Critique, Norm and Utopia. A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory (1986); Situating the Self. Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (1992); The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (1996); The Claims of Culture. Equality and Diversity in the Global World (2003); The Rights of Others. Aliens, Citizens and Residents (2004); Another Cosmopolitanism.

Hospitality, Sovereignty and Democratic Iterations (2006); Dignity in Adversity. Human Rights in Troubled Times (2011); Equality and Difference. Human Dignity and Popular Sovereignty (Leopold Lucas lectures (2013)) Books co-edited with Volker Kaul: Toward New Democratic Imaginaries. Istanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture, and Politics (Springer 2016). His latest book is Exile, Statelessness, and Migration. Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin was published by Princeton University Press in 2018.

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