Seyla BenhabibThinkers

Agency is the subject's capacity for choice and self-determination.

Anthropological universalism is the idea that humans are all members of the same species given under the same conditions and thus sharing the ethical position of fundamental equality and commonality.

Citizenship is a kind of sorting which inherently excludes others and marks them as foreign, alien, and undeserving of rights.

Culture is internally riven by conflicting narratives.

Democracy is a model for organizing the collective and public exercise of power in the major institutions of a society on the basis of the principle that decisions affecting the wellbeing of a collectivity.

Interactive universalism is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

A Norm of universal respect is the idea that every speaking, rational creature has equal right to participate in the conversation.

Porous borders is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

Public - private is a distinction that is always in flux. All struggles against oppression in the modern world begin by redefining what had previously been considered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.