Situating the Self (eBook)

Seyla Benhabib has authored Critique, Norm, and Utopia, and is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She is author of

Acknowledgements.

Induction.

Part I. Modernity, Morality and Ethical:.

1. In the Shadow of Aristotle and Hegel.

2. Autonomy, Modernity and Community.

3. Models of Public Space.

4. Judgements and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Hannah
Arendt's Thought.

Part II. Autonomy, Feminism and Postmodernism:.

5. The Generalized and the Concrete Other.

6. The Debate over Women and Moral Theory Revisited.

7. Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism.

8. On Hegel, Women and Irony.

Index.

'Seyla Benhabib's voice is emerging as one of the most vital and
important in contemporary social and political theory. In this
collection of her recent articles, she articulates and defends a
conception of interactive dialogical rationality and universalism
that is sensitive to recent critiques by feminists, communitarians
and postmodernists. She spans Continental and Anglo-American
traditions and has a rare ability to write lucidly and forcefully
about complex issues. Her critical discussions of Habermas, Arendt,
MacIntyre, Lyotard (and many others) are always illuminating and
provocative.'

Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research