Benhabib, Seyla (1950–)
Seyla Benhabib is currently one of the most prestigious intellectuals across the globe. She was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1950 and she was brought up within a multilingual context. Later, she moved to the United States of America to pursue her PhD and then to start her academic career. She received the intellectual heritage mainly from German thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, Arendt, and Habermas. Thus, Benhabib's work is an attempt to perform a review of the unfinished project of the Modernity. The article aims to draw an overview about the personal, intellectual, and professional life of Seyla Benhabib.