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158
National Ranking
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Seyla Benhabib publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Seyla Benhabib sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 245 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Seyla Benhabib D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Seyla Benhabib sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 55 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2005 - Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Seyla Benhabib is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations. Their academic work extends into intersecting subfields including sociology and political science, law, philosophy, and religious studies.

The main topics of Benhabib's research include several dimensions of political thought and social inquiry. These topics are:

  • Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Critical Theory and Philosophy
  • Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
  • Law in Society and Culture
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics

Their scholarly output includes multiple recent papers published from 2020 to 2021. Notable works are:

  • "The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention? Dilemmas of Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Human Rights" (2020) published in Jus Cogens
  • "Dialogic constitutionalism and judicial review" (2020) published in Global Constitutionalism
  • "Habermas's new Phenomenology of Spirit: Two centuries after Hegel" (2021) published in Constellations
  • "Democracy, science and the state: Reflections on the disaster(s) of our times" (2021) published in Philosophy & Social Criticism
  • "A militant defence of democracy in hard times" (2020) published in Philosophy & Social Criticism

Benhabib has also contributed to academic books published by reputable presses. Noteworthy book publications include:

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law, Cambridge University Press, 2021
  • Gleichheit und Differenz, Mohr Siebeck eBooks, 2021

Frequent publication venues for Benhabib's work are as follows:

  • Philosophy & Social Criticism
  • Constellations
  • Jus Cogens
  • Global Constitutionalism
  • Cadernos de Filosofia Alemã Crítica e Modernidade

Benhabib regularly collaborates with other scholars. Among frequent coauthors are:

  • Jens Meierhenrich
  • Paul Linden-Retek
  • Adriaan Lanni
  • Luc Heuschling
  • Lawrence Rosen

The academic honors received reflect recognition within their field. These awards include:

  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2011
  • Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association (APSA), 2005
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995

Best Publications

  • The rights of others : aliens, residents, and citizens

    Seyla Benhabib

  • Democracy and difference : contesting the boundaries of the political

    Seyla Benhabib

  • Critique, Norm, and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory

    Seyla Benhabib

  • Modernity versus Postmodernity

    Jurgen Habermas;Seyla Ben-Habib

  • The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era

    Seyla Benhabib

  • The reluctant modernism of Hannah Arendt

    Seyla Benhabib

  • The Claims of Culture

    Unknown

  • Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics.

    Cheshire Calhoun;Seyla Benhabib

  • Four Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy

    Unknown

  • The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures

    Seyla Benhabib;Jurgen Habermas;Frederick G. Lawrence

  • Another Cosmopolitanism

    Unknown

  • Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics

    Seyla Benhabib

  • Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange

    Seyla Benhabib;Judith Butler;Drucilla Cornell;Nancy Fraser

  • Feminism as critique: On the politics of gender

    Seyla Benhabib;Drucilla Cornell

  • Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times

    Seyla Benhabib

  • Los derechos de los otros: extranjeros, residentes y ciudadanos

    Seyla Benhabib

  • Situating the Self

    Seyla Benhabib

  • The Claims of Culture

    Unknown

  • Deliberative Rationalality and Models of Democratic Legitimacy

    Seyla Benhabib

  • Sexual Difference and Collective Identities--The New Global Constellation

    Seyla Benhabib

  • The Communicative Ethics Controversy

    Seyla Benhabib;Fred R. Dallmayr

  • Twilight of Sovereignty or the Emergence of Cosmopolitan Norms? Rethinking Citizenship in Volatile Times

    Seyla Benhabib

  • Claiming Rights across Borders: International Human Rights and Democratic Sovereignty

    Seyla Benhabib

  • Identities, Affiliations and Allegiances

    Seyla Benhabib;Ian Shapiro;Danilo Petranović

  • The Law of Peoples, Distributive Justice, and Migrations

    Seyla Benhabib

  • Epistemologies of Postmodernism: A Rejoinder to Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Seyla Benhabib

  • Hannah Arendt and the Redemptive Power of Narrative

    Seyla Benhabib

  • Borders, Boundaries, and Citizenship

    Seyla Benhabib

  • I. Judgment and the Moral Foundations of Politics in Arendt's Thought

    Seyla Benhabib

  • The Right to Justification by Rainer Forst

    Seyla Benhabib;Jeffrey Flynn;Matthias Fritsch;Rainer Forst

  • The Philosophical Foundations of Cosmopolitan Norms

    Seyla Benhabib

  • Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity: Critical Essays on the Philosophical Discourse of Modernity

    Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves;Seyla Benhabib

  • Critique, Norm and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory

    Dieter Misgeld;Seyla Benhabib

  • Pragmatism, critique, judgment : essays for Richard J. Bernstein

    Seyla Benhabib;Nancy Fraser

  • Crises of the Republic

    Seyla Benhabib

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Shapiro
Ian Shapiro Yale University
Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser New School
Judith Butler
Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley
Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse University of California, San Diego
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt
Judith Resnik
Judith Resnik Yale University
Robert C. Post
Robert C. Post Yale University
Richard A. Posner
Richard A. Posner University of Chicago
Sanford Levinson
Sanford Levinson The University of Texas at Austin

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