Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Emerita at Yale University and Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Law School.

"This book offers a thought-provoking defense of an inclusive moral, legal, and political universalism that takes the challenges of the postcolonial critique seriously. Retrieving core ideas of the traditions of critical social theory and liberal legal thought, the book advocates for a radical rethinking of core tenets of international law such as sovereignty, human rights, and territoriality in the face of challenges such as migration, the globalized economy, and climate change. It is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the profound political challenges we face today."Cristina Lafont, Northwestern University"Since her earliest contributions to critical theory in the 1980s, Seyla Benhabib has remained at the cutting edge of debates over democratic theory and humanitarian law. Challenging the recent ethos of arid skepticism that adopts a one-sided genealogical critique of cosmopolitanism and human rights, this new book pushes back, with courage and conviction. Shedding a powerful light on the normative validity that remains alive in the language of political universalism, it confirms Benhabib's place as one of the most esteemed political philosophers of our time."Peter E. Gordon, Harvard University"Deserves to be widely read and discussed"Critical Theology

• IntroductionPart One:  The European Modern State from Hegel to Habermas1. “The Specter of Popular Sovereignty in Habermas’s Between Facts and Norms. After Three Decades”2. “Hegel’s Concept of the Person and International Human Rights”3. “Restructuring Democracy and the Idea of Europe” with Stefan EichPart Two:  Democracy and Normativity Beyond Borders4. “Ronald Dworkin and The Normative Orders of International Law”5. “Beyond the Hermeneutics of Suspicion. Reconstructing CosmopolitanLaw”6. “The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention? Dilemmas of Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Human Rights”Part Three: Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism and After Europe7. “Sovereignty and Constituent Power” 8. “Politics in a Planetary Age. The Globe as World, Earth and Planet”9. “Habermas’s New Phenomenology of Spirit: Two Centuries after Hegel”10. Conclusion. In Defense of Rational Indignation

Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Emerita at Yale University and Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Law School.

"This book offers a thought-provoking defense of an inclusive moral, legal, and political universalism that takes the challenges of the postcolonial critique seriously. Retrieving core ideas of the traditions of critical social theory and liberal legal thought, the book advocates for a radical rethinking of core tenets of international law such as sovereignty, human rights, and territoriality in the face of challenges such as migration, the globalized economy, and climate change. It is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the profound political challenges we face today."Cristina Lafont, Northwestern University"Since her earliest contributions to critical theory in the 1980s, Seyla Benhabib has remained at the cutting edge of debates over democratic theory and humanitarian law. Challenging the recent ethos of arid skepticism that adopts a one-sided genealogical critique of cosmopolitanism and human rights, this new book pushes back, with courage and conviction. Shedding a powerful light on the normative validity that remains alive in the language of political universalism, it confirms Benhabib's place as one of the most esteemed political philosophers of our time."Peter E. Gordon, Harvard University"Deserves to be widely read and discussed"Critical Theology

• IntroductionPart One:  The European Modern State from Hegel to Habermas1. “The Specter of Popular Sovereignty in Habermas’s Between Facts and Norms. After Three Decades”2. “Hegel’s Concept of the Person and International Human Rights”3. “Restructuring Democracy and the Idea of Europe” with Stefan EichPart Two:  Democracy and Normativity Beyond Borders4. “Ronald Dworkin and The Normative Orders of International Law”5. “Beyond the Hermeneutics of Suspicion. Reconstructing CosmopolitanLaw”6. “The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention? Dilemmas of Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Human Rights”Part Three: Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism and After Europe7. “Sovereignty and Constituent Power” 8. “Politics in a Planetary Age. The Globe as World, Earth and Planet”9. “Habermas’s New Phenomenology of Spirit: Two Centuries after Hegel”10. Conclusion. In Defense of Rational Indignation