Dignity in adversity : human rights in troubled times / Seyla Benhabib.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-284) and index.

Introduction : cosmopolitanism without illusions -- From The dialectic of enlightenment to The origins of totalitarianism : Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer in the company of Hannah Arendt -- International law and himan plurality in the shadow of totalitarianism : Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin -- Another universalism : on the unity and diversity of human rights -- Is there a human right to democracy? : Beyond interventionism and indifference -- Twilight of sovereignty or the emergence of cosmopolitan norms : Rethinking citizenship in volatile times -- Claiming rights across borders : international human rights and democratic sovereignty -- Democratic exclusions and democratic iterations : dilemmas of just membership and prospects of comsopolitan federalism -- The return of political theology : the scarf affair in comparative constitutional perspective in France, Germany and Turkey -- Utopia and dystopia in our times.