Conversación entre Seyla Benhabib y Judith Butler en torno a : universalidad, norma, sujeto y democracia

Abstract

This thesis consists of a proposal for a conversation between Seyla Benhabib and Judith Butler. Two contemporary authors who focus their attention on the ethical and political reflection of the current world, intercultural conflicts, minority rights, the use of public space, migrations and the possibilities of organization and collective subversion to live in community.The main goal of this thesis is to discuss what each of these authors outlines as universality, norm, subject and democracy to clearly expose how and why they differ. This is especially relevant because both thinkers are interested in the same problems and sometimes seem to be aiming for similar solutions.With a solid background in Critical Theory, Seyla Benhabib (student of J. Habermas and H. Marcuse) addresses the issues indicated in the title of the thesis from that philosophical current. For his part, Butler deals with these same issues from a different philosophical position: the post-structuralist one.Thus, Benhabib suggests a set of universal rules to participate and remain within a community as well as to participate in the processes of its organization.Judith Butler, for her part, proposes a set of questions to reflect on the possibilities of social and political organization without proposing universal rules for its establishment, but keeping in mind the material conditions that make this organization possible...