An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of
prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile
and migration Exile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the
intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of prominent
Jewish intellectuals during the mid-twentieth century-in
particular, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Isaiah
Berlin, Albert Hirschman, and Judith Shklar, as well as Hans
Kelsen, Emmanuel Levinas, Gershom Scholem, and Leo Strauss.
Informed by their Jewish identity and experiences of being
outsiders, these thinkers produced one of the most brilliant and
effervescent intellectual movements of modernity. Political
philosopher Seyla Benhabib's starting point is that these thinkers
faced migration, statelessness, and exile because of their Jewish
origins, even if they did not take positions on specifically Jewish
issues personally. The sense of belonging and not belonging, of
being "eternally half-other," led them to confront essential
questions: What does it mean for the individual to be an equal
citizen and to wish to retain one's ethnic, cultural, and religious
differences, or perhaps even to rid oneself of these differences
altogether in modernity? Benhabib isolates four themes in their
works: dilemmas of belonging and difference; exile, political
voice, and loyalty; legality and legitimacy; and pluralism and the
problem of judgment. Surveying the work of influential
intellectuals, Exile, Statelessness, and Migration recovers the
valuable plurality of their Jewish voices and develops their
universal insights in the face of the crises of this new century.
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