The undergraduate thesis is mainly concerned with the thought of the Turkish-American philosopher of Jewish descent, Seyla Benhabib. I focus on her works that talk about themes, such as transnational migration and human rights. I summarize how Benhabib arguments the importance of the right to membership in an organised political community. Then I summarize her conception of the right to communicative freedom and her ideas, surrounding the concepts of the generalised and the concrete other. I will also present the way she introduces the concept of democratic iterations. Benhabib sees it as a way of consolidating the universal and the particular. Following a presentation of her ideas, I focus on some of her critics, mainly critics that are critical of her belief in human rights and of her reliance on the concept. After that the thesis, with the help of some critics of human rights, tries to articulate why belief in the concept of human rights can be problematic and lead a thinker into a pitfall.
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