Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin. By Seyla Benhabib. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. 304p. $80.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 865-866
Author(s):  
Julie E. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Isaiah Berlin ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
And Migration

Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Response to my critics

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Seyla Benhabib
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Isaiah Berlin ◽  
Albert Hirschman ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Liberal Societies ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Palestinian Population ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Jewish Intellectuals

My new book, Exile, Statelessness, and Migration. Playing Chess With History From Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin, considers the intertwined lives and work of Jewish intellectuals as they make their escape from war-torn Europe into new countries. Although the group which I consider, including Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Judith Shklar, Albert Hirschman and Isaiah Berlin, have a unique profile as migrants because of their formidable education and intellectual capital, I argue that their lives are still exemplary for many of the dilemmas and risks faced by all migrants. In the reply to critics, I consider such issues as the intellectual relations between Benjamin, Adorno and Horkheimer; differences between Arendt’s and Adorno’s views of an interpretive social science; and why international law played such an important role in the imagination of Jewish intellectuals. A further question involves the generalizability of the experience of Jewish otherness in European culture. Liberal societies always designate some others as their constitutive exterior. How continuous is the experience of emigré Jewish intellectuals with the exclusion of ethnic and racial minorities in our societies? Finally, if the founding of the State of Israel has by no means resolved the problems of statelessness but re-created it for the Palestinian population, what kind of political stance should we assume vis-à-vis this reality today?

Attention Deficit Democracy: The Paradox of Civic Engagement. By Ben Berger. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. 216p. $35.00.

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 805-807
Author(s):  
Justin Buchler
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Attention Deficit ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Intrinsic Good ◽  
Good For

“Civic engagement” is the cornerstone of democracy, right? Everyone knows we need more civic engagement—everyone, that is, except Ben Berger, whose willingness to argue against convention, particularly when that convention is a key tenet of good governmentism, makes me reflexively sympathetic to his argument. Berger and I both attack foundational assumptions of conventional democratic thought, but we differ in our approaches. I base my arguments on economic theory and quantitative analysis, whereas he bases his arguments primarily on interpretations of canonical theorists, most importantly Hannah Arendt and Alexis de Tocqueville. Ultimately, I am convinced by Berger's argument that civic engagement is a messy concept that cannot be considered an “intrinsic good” for democracy, but like most formal theorists, I needed little convincing because the debate that he characterizes is remarkably similar to one that game theorists held some years ago, and resolved in the same direction. Ironically, then, he may face a more hostile audience from within his own subfield than outside of it.

scholarly journals A DEMOCRATIC CONSENSUS? ISAIAH BERLIN, HANNAH ARENDT, AND THE ANTI-TOTALITARIAN FAMILY QUARREL

Think ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (48) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Kei Hiruta
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Isaiah Berlin ◽  
Post War ◽  
Political Turmoil

Amid the ongoing political turmoil, symbolized by the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, books and articles abound today to encourage us to re-read anti-totalitarian classics ‘for our times’. But what do we find in this body of work originally written in response to Nazism and Stalinism? Do we find a democratic consensus forged by a shared anti-totalitarian commitment? I doubt it. Considering the cases of Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt, this article highlights discord beneath what may today appear like a post-war democratic consensus. I argue that the anti-totalitarian literature of the last century encompassed multiple political philosophies, which sometimes differed irreconcilably from each other.

scholarly journals Heliotropes

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Robyn Marasco
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
And Migration

A reflection on Seyla Benhabib’s Exile, Statelessness, and Migration, with a particular focus on her reconstruction of early critical theory and the ‘Benjaminian moment’ that links Hannah Arendt to Theodor Adorno.

MODERN JAPAN'S TROUBLED PURSUIT OF ‘WEALTH AND POWER’

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-550
Author(s):  
STEPHEN S. LARGE
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
First Century ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Alliance Politics ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The World ◽  
Imperial Japan ◽  
And Migration

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