20 Facts About Seyla Benhabib

Seyla Benhabib is a Turkish-born American philosopher.

Seyla Benhabib is an affiliate faculty member in the Columbia University Department of Philosophy and a senior fellow at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought.

Seyla Benhabib was a scholar in residence at the Law School from 2018 to 2019 and was the James S Carpentier Visiting professor of law in spring 2019.

Seyla Benhabib was the Eugene Mayer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University from 2001 to 2020.

Seyla Benhabib was director of the program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from 2002 to 2008.

Seyla Benhabib is well known for her work in political philosophy, which draws on critical theory and feminist political theory.

Seyla Benhabib has written extensively on the philosophers Hannah Arendt and Jurgen Habermas, as well as on the topic of human migration.

Seyla Benhabib is the author of numerous books, and has received several prestigious awards and lectureships in recognition of her work.

Seyla Benhabib received her high school diploma in 1970 from Robert College, then called the American College for Girls in Istanbul, before leaving for the United States.

Seyla Benhabib taught in the departments of philosophy at Boston University, SUNY Stony Brook, the New School for Social Research, and the Department of Government at Harvard University, before taking her current position at Yale.

Seyla Benhabib was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995.

Seyla Benhabib held the Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam in 2000 and was a Tanner Lecturer at UC, Berkeley in 2004.

Seyla Benhabib has one daughter from her first marriage with the historian Wolf Schafer and is married to author and journalist Jim Sleeper.

Seyla Benhabib is a liberal democratic theorist who does not believe in the purity of cultures; she thinks of them as formed through dialogues with other cultures.

Seyla Benhabib argues that in democratic theory it is assumed that every single person should be able to determine their own life.

Seyla Benhabib argues that pluralism, the existence of fundamentally different cultures, is compatible with cosmopolitanism, if three conditions are fulfilled.

Seyla Benhabib argues that political boundaries define some as members, but lock others out.

Seyla Benhabib argues that somebody who is stateless is seen as an outcast and is in a way rightless.

Seyla Benhabib takes this right as a starting point which resulted in her thoughts about migration and refugee problems.

Seyla Benhabib goes further than Kant, arguing that the human right of hospitality should not apply to a single visit, but in some cases to long-term stays.