Seyla Benhabib - Interactive Universalism and the Rights of Others (Part 1/2)

Описание: Do universal rights claims need to be contextualized? And how does this happen? At our Istanbul Seminars 2011, we asked Professor Seyla Benhabib from Yale University. How do the voices of the excluded -- women, immigrants, minorities -- get included into the public sphere? Through a process of democratic iterations and jurisgenerativity -- Prof. Benhabib explains -- linking the normative, utopian aspect of legal claims and the very process of questioning, confrontation and dialogue. Rights always require interpretation or, to be more precise, iteration in a specific context.

Interview: Nina zu Fürstenberg
Film: Anna Fanuele

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The Istanbul Seminars are an annual highly academic early summer seminar organized in Istanbul (with Bilgi University, which also hosts the event) by ResetDoC where cultural and scientific thinkers in social sciences, philosophy, political theory, sociology, legal studies and religion discuss our common future. The seminars tackled the following topics. Postsecularism (2008), Religion, Human Rights and Multicultural Jurisdictions (2009), Realigning liberalism: pluralism, integration, identities (2010), Overcoming the trap of resentment (2011), The promise of democracy in troubled times (2012), The Sources of Political Legitimacy. From the Erosion of the Nation-State to the Rise of Political Islam (2013), The Sources of Pluralism - Metaphysics, Epistemology, Law and Politics (2014).
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