Another Cosmopolitanism

222 Pages·2006·1.01 MB·English

by  Seyla Benhabib

Another Cosmopolitanism
SEYLA BENHABIB
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Another Cosmopolitanism
The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values,which honor the American schol-
ar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner, are presented
annually at each of nine universities in the United States and England.
They were established at the University of California,Berkeley,beginning
in the 2000/1academic year.This volume is the third in a series of books
based on the Berkeley Tanner Lectures.In this volume we include the
lectures that Seyla Benhabib presented in March,2004,along with the
responses of the three invited commentators on that occasion—Bonnie
Honig,Will Kymlicka, and Jeremy Waldron—and a final rejoinder by
Professor Benhabib.The volume is edited by Robert Post,who also con-
tributes an introduction.We have established the Berkeley Tanner lec-
tures Series in the belief that these distinguished lectures,together with
the lively debates stimulated by their presentation in Berkeley,deserve to
be made available to a wider audience.Additional volumes are now in
preparation.
Robert Post
Samuel Scheffler
Series Editors
Volumes Published in the Series
Joseph Raz,The Practice of Value
Edited by R.Jay Wallace
With Christine M.Korsgaard,Robert Pippin,and Bernard Williams
Frank Kermode,Pleasure and Change:The Aesthetics of Canon
Edited by Robert Alter
With Geoffrey Hartman,John Guillory,and Carey Perloff
Another Cosmopolitanism
Seyla Benhabib
With Commentaries by
Jeremy Waldron
Bonnie Honig
Will Kymlicka
Edited and introduced by
Robert Post
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2006
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Benhabib,Seyla.
Another cosmopolitanism/Seyla Benhabib;with commentaries
by Jeremy Waldron,Bonnie Honig,Will Kymlicka;
edited and introduced by Robert Post.
p.cm.—(Berkeley Tanner lectures)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13 978-0-19-518322-1
ISBN 0-19-518322-3
1.Cosmopolitanism. 2.Law—Philosophy. 3.Human rights.
4.Citizenship. 5.World citizenship. I.Waldron,Jeremy.
II.Honig,Bonnie. III.Kymlicka,Will. IV.Post,Robert.
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Acknowledgments
The following text is a much revised version of the Tanner Lectures,
which I was asked to deliver at the University of California in Berkeley
in March 2004.I thank the Berkeley University Tanner Committee
and in particular Samuel Sheffler,Martin Jay,David Hollinger,and
Aihwa Ong for their questions and comments,and Judith Butler and
Wendy Brown for their hospitality during this occasion.
I am grateful to Bonnie Honig,William Kymlicka,and Jeremey
Waldron, whose deep and engaging comments have taught me a
great deal.
Robert Post has been an invaluable friend,critic,and interlocutor
as this volume has taken shape and at many points has helped me
sharpen my arguments.
Several other colleagues have commented on various aspects of
these discussions:Tom McCarthy,Nancy Fraser,Rainer Bauboeck,
and Jim Sleeper, my husband, have made important observations
along the way.
Turkuler Isiksel has joined this project in its final phases and has
provided invaluable editorial and bibliographic assistance. I thank
her for the good work.
Seyla Benhabib
October2005
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Contents
List of Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Robert Post
ANOTHER COSMOPOLITANISM
Seyla Benhabib
The Philosophical Foundations of
Cosmopolitan Norms 13
Democratic Iterations:
The Local,the National,and the Global 45
COMMENTS
Cosmopolitan Norms 83
Jeremy Waldron
Another Cosmopolitanism?
Law and Politics in the New Europe 102
Bonnie Honig
Liberal Nationalism and Cosmopolitan Justice 128
Will Kymlicka
viii • Contents
REPLY TO COMMENTATORS
Seyla Benhabib
Hospitality,Sovereignty,and
Democratic Iterations 147
Bibliography 187
Index 197