Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin

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An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migration Exile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of prominent Jewish intellectuals during the mid-twentieth century-in particular, Theodor Adorno, H

Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. Her many books have been translated into more than fourteen languages, and include Dignity in Adversity, The Rights of Others, and The Claims of Culture (Princeton).

"Seyla Benhabib['s], Exile, Statelessness, and Migration, presents us with a series of intellectual encounters that have shaped her own thinking over the course of a long and distinguished career as a political theorist and philosopher . . . written in an elegant, reflective mode that avoid the pitfalls of narrow academicism. . . . All the chapters in this excellent and inspiring book converge on the hopeful thought that, even in our own 'dark times,' the normative element in political theory still retains the power to help to illuminate our path into an uncertain future."---Peter Gordon "A complex and remarkable book that defies easy categorization. . . .this book will be a significant resource for scholars, and it will be indispensable for those who want to enter into these dialogues themselves."---Chris Irwin, European Legacy