Seyla Benhabib: Cosmopolitan Norms, Human Rights, and Democratic Iterations

Presidential Lecturer
Professor Benhabib will discuss one of the most divisive controversies of our times: What are cosmopolitan rights? Are they, as some argue, “the Trojan horse” of an imperial neo-liberal order extending throughout the globe? Or are they principles of any future cosmopolitical order based on the principles of equality, autonomy, and self-government?
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When:
Monday, October 27, 2008. 07:00PM