Seyla Benhabib

24.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
148 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Seyla Benhabib is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Seyla Benhabib has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 59 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 15 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Seyla Benhabib's work include Political Philosophy and Ethics (21 papers), Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (20 papers) and Critical Theory and Philosophy (19 papers). Seyla Benhabib is often cited by papers focused on Political Philosophy and Ethics (21 papers), Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (20 papers) and Critical Theory and Philosophy (19 papers). Seyla Benhabib collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Mexico. Seyla Benhabib's co-authors include Jürgen Habermas, Nanette Funk, Drucilla Cornell, Frederick Lawrence, Cheshire Calhoun, Nancy Fraser, Judith Butler, Elliot Jurist, Dieter Misgeld and Fred Dallmayr and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Political Science Review.

In The Last Decade

Seyla Benhabib

135 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

Democracy and difference ... 1987 2026 2000 2013 1996 2004 2002 2002 1994 250 500 750

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Seyla Benhabib United States 34 5.2k 3.5k 1.2k 1.1k 885 148 9.0k
Chantal Mouffe United Kingdom 31 7.7k 1.5× 4.5k 1.3× 1.4k 1.2× 1.5k 1.3× 889 1.0× 117 13.9k
Ernesto Laclau United Kingdom 29 6.3k 1.2× 3.9k 1.1× 1.2k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 667 0.8× 88 11.2k
Craig Calhoun United States 48 6.4k 1.2× 3.0k 0.8× 697 0.6× 1.0k 0.9× 626 0.7× 187 10.6k
Max Weber United States 46 7.3k 1.4× 3.1k 0.9× 757 0.6× 795 0.7× 418 0.5× 287 13.0k
Axel Honneth Germany 37 5.3k 1.0× 2.6k 0.7× 969 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 466 0.5× 228 8.6k
Charles W. Mills United States 29 6.5k 1.2× 2.3k 0.7× 668 0.6× 1.7k 1.5× 832 0.9× 124 11.7k
Will Kymlicka Canada 42 5.8k 1.1× 4.5k 1.3× 494 0.4× 1.4k 1.2× 388 0.4× 174 9.6k
Steven Lukes United States 25 4.0k 0.8× 2.2k 0.6× 656 0.5× 932 0.8× 444 0.5× 93 8.7k
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak United States 38 7.1k 1.4× 2.6k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 1.7k 1.5× 1.6k 1.8× 181 13.9k
Hannah Arendt United States 38 7.6k 1.5× 5.9k 1.7× 3.4k 2.8× 1.4k 1.2× 445 0.5× 215 14.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Benhabib, Seyla. (2021). On the unity and dissonance of Critique and Praxis. British Journal of Sociology. 72(3). 859–863.
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Benhabib, Seyla. (2021). Democracy, science and the state: Reflections on the disaster(s) of our times. Philosophy & Social Criticism. 47(4). 477–485. 2 indexed citations
3.
Benhabib, Seyla. (2018). Exile, Statelessness, and Migration. Princeton University Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla. (2018). Exile, Statelessness, and Migration. Princeton University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla. (2018). Exile, Statelessness, and Migration. Princeton University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla. (2010). Politics in Dark Times: Encounters with Hannah Arendt. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla, Jeremy Waldron, Bonnie Honig, Will Kymlicka, & Robert M. Post. (2008). Kosmopolitismus und Demokratie : eine Debatte. Campus eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla. (2008). Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism, and Women and Citizenship (review). Hypatia. 23(4). 220–225. 3 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla. (2008). Is there a human right to democracy? : beyond interventionism and indiffrence [i.e. indifference]. University Press of Kansas eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Villa, Dana, Dana Villa, Margaret Canovan, et al.. (2000). The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 59 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla. (1998). Hannah Arendt : die melancholische Denkerin der Moderne. 9 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla. (1998). Feminism and postmodernism: An uneasy alliance. 46(5). 30 indexed citations
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d’Entrèves, Maurizio Passerin & Seyla Benhabib. (1997). Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity: Critical Essays on the Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. 77 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla. (1996). Democracy and difference : contesting the boundaries of the political. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 864 indexed citations breakdown →
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Benhabib, Seyla & Judith Butler. (1995). Drucilla Cornell, and Nancy Fraser. 266(9). 5384–7. 4 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla. (1995). Selbst im Kontext : kommunikative Ethik im Spannungsfeld von Feminismus, Kommunitarismus und Postmoderne. Suhrkamp eBooks. 17 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla & Fred Dallmayr. (1990). The Communicative Ethics Controversy. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 28(4). 465–469. 121 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla. (1989). In The Shadow Of Aristotle And Hegel: Communicative Ethics And Current Controversies In Practical Philosophy. The Philosophical Forum. 21(1). 15 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla. (1981). Rationality and Social Action: Critical Reflections on Weber's Methodological Writings. The Philosophical Forum. 12(4). 356–374. 1 indexed citations
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Benhabib, Seyla. (1977). Natural right and Hegel : an essay in modern political philosophy. UMI Dissertation Information Service eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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