How Long to Read Dignity in Adversity

How Long Does it Take to Read Dignity in Adversity?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 14 minutes to read Dignity in Adversity by Seyla Benhabib

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The language of human rights has become the public vocabulary of our contemporary world. Ironically, as the political influence of human rights has grown, their philosophical justification has become ever more controversial. Building on a theory of discourse ethics and communicative rationality, this book addresses the politics and philosophy of human rights against the background of the broader social transformations that are shaping the modern world. Rejecting the reduction of international human rights to the Trojan horse of a neo-liberal empire's bid for world power, as well as the conservative objections to legal cosmopolitanism as encroachments upon democratic sovereignty, Benhabib develops two key concepts to move beyond these false antitheses. International human rights norms need contextualization in specific polities through processes of what she calls 'democratic iterations.' Furthermore, such norms have a 'jurisgenerative power,' in that they enable new actors to enter fields of social and political contestation; they promote new vocabularies for public claim-making and anticipate a justice to come. Ranging over themes such as sovereignty, citizenship, genocide, European anti-semitism, the crisis of the nation-state, and the 'scarf affair' in contemporary Europe and Turkey, this major new book by one of our leading political theorists reflects upon the political transformations of our times and makes a compelling case for a cosmopolitanism without illusions.

How long is Dignity in Adversity?

Dignity in Adversity by Seyla Benhabib is 312 pages long, and a total of 78,624 words.

This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dignity in Adversity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 9 minutes to read Dignity in Adversity aloud.

What Reading Level is Dignity in Adversity?

Dignity in Adversity is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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