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Upcoming classes

Upcoming classes. Wed reports: Rebecca Pierson, Sarah Streibich, Mary Watts Wed. reading: Benhabib, pages 45-80 Monday reading: Waldron A-H Honig J-McCarthy Kymlicka McElroy-R Benhabib reply S-Z. Cosmopolitanism. Arendt and Benhabib. Hannah Arendt.

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Upcoming classes

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  1. Upcoming classes • Wed reports: Rebecca Pierson, Sarah Streibich, Mary Watts • Wed. reading: Benhabib, pages 45-80 • Monday reading: • Waldron A-H • Honig J-McCarthy • Kymlicka McElroy-R • Benhabib reply S-Z

  2. Cosmopolitanism Arendt and Benhabib

  3. Hannah Arendt • The Origins of Totalitarianism • The right to have rights

  4. The calamity of the rightless • They no longer belong to any community • This condition is created before the right to life is challenged • They are placeless • The loss of national rights is the loss of human rights • This loss reduces to the species and so creates barbarians

  5. Seyla BenhabibAnother Cosmopolitanism • Arendt, Jaspers and the Eichmann trial • Cosmopolitan Norms of Justice • From international to cosmopolitan norms (16) • Treaties among states to norms that accrue to individuals (international public law) • How can will of democratic majorities be reconciled with norms of cosmopolitan justice? (17)

  6. Seyla BenhabibAnother Cosmopolitanism • Cosmopolitanism and Discursive Scope • Limitations of morally permissible practices of inclusion and exclusion in sovereign polities (19) • Projects of mediations (20) • Kant’s cosmopolitan legacy • Hospitality (21) • Potential participants in a world republic (22) • Three puzzles (25-26)

  7. Seyla BenhabibAnother Cosmopolitanism • The Rise of an International Human Rights Regime • Codes • Genocide and War Crimes • Humanitarian Interventions • Transnational Migration • Caught between sovereignty and hospitality

  8. Seyla BenhabibAnother Cosmopolitanism • The Paradox of Democratic Legitimacy (32-36) • How can we negotiate the complex relationships between the rights of full membership, democratic voice, and territorial residence?

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