Deliberative democracy and interactive universalism: appropriation and critique of Hannah Arendt

• Grant number: 15/11259-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: September 21, 2015
• End date: October 10, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Ethics
• Principal Investigator: Yara Adario Frateschi
• Grantee: Yara Adario Frateschi
• Host Investigator: Seyla Benhabib
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Yale University, United States

Abstract

This project aims to analyze the way by which Seyla Benhabib recovers Hannah Arendt´s notion of 'enlarged mentality' in order to formulate the theory of interactive universalism and the theory of deliberative democracy. At the same time, I want to investigate the limits of arendtian philosophy for Seyla Benhabib and her proposal of thinking "with Arendt and against Arendt".