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Rethinking Citizenship (PHRV 3136)

Fordham University, Spring 2008

Professor: Samir Haddad

E-mail: sahaddad@fordham.edu

Description: In this seminar we will reflect on the concept of citizenship, paying particularattention to the way contemporary conditions of diversity and difference have led to its

reformulation. We will begin with an examination of the communitarian account of citizenship

given by Michael Walzer. We will then investigate more explicitly the challenge that multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism pose to citizenship, first looking at the debate in France over the

wearing of the Muslim veil in public schools, and then at the liberal theory of multicultural

citizenship developed by Will Kymlicka. Finally we will discuss citizenship beyond the nation-

state by discussing various theories of cosmopolitanism, with a particular focus on the work of Seyla Benhabib.

Texts:Available at Fordham University Bookstore.

Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship, Oxford University Press, 1996.

Seyla Benhabib, Another Cosmopolitanism, Oxford University Press, 2006.

All other readings will be available on electronic reserve.

Assessment: 8 argument summary papers 16% (2% each)

Participation 14%

1 short paper 15%1 long paper 30%

1 presentation 10%

Final exam 15%

Schedule:

Wk 1 Tues Jan 15 Introduction and mechanics

Fri 18 J. G. A. Pocock, “The ideal of citizenship since classical times”

Communitarian Citizenship

2 Tues 22 John Rawls, “Justice as fairness: Political not metaphysical”

Fri 25 Michael Walzer “What does it mean to be an ‘American’?”

3 Tues 29 Michael Walzer “Pluralism: A political perspective”

Fri Feb 1 Michael Walzer, “Membership”

4 Tues 5 Joseph Carens, “Aliens and citizens: the case for open borders”

Fri 8 Bonnie Honig, “The foreigner as citizen”

5 Tues 12 Iris Marion Young, “Polity and group difference: A critique of the ideal of 

universal citizenship”

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Multicultural Citizenship 

Fri 15 Joan W. Scott, “Symptomatic politics: The banning of Islamic head

scarves in French public schools”

6 Tues 19 No class

Fri 22 Patrick Weil, “Lifting the veil”

Short Paper Due

7 Tues 26 Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship, Chs 1-2 pp. 1-33

Fri 29 Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship, Chs 3-4 pp.34-74

8 Tues Mar 4 Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship, Ch 5 pp.75-106

Fri 7 Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship, Chs 6-7 pp. 107-151

9 Tues 11 Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship, Chs 8-10 pp.152-195

Wed 12 – Mon 24 Mid-semester and Easter break 

Cosmopolitan Citizenship

10 Tues 25 “Universal declaration of human rights”Hannah Arendt, “The perplexities of the rights of man”

Fri 28 Immanuel Kant, “Toward perpetual peace”, 2nd and 3rd Definitive ArticlesJacques Derrida, “On cosmopolitanism”, “Rights, Justice, Hospitality”

11 Tues Apr 1 Martha Nussbaum, “Patriotism and cosmopolitanism”

Martha Nussbaum, “Human functioning and social justice”, pp. 202-205,214-223

Fri 4 William Connolly, “Eccentric flows and cosmopolitan culture”

12 Tues 8 Seyla Benhabib, Another Cosmopolitanism, pp.13-44

Fri 11 Seyla Benhabib, Another Cosmopolitanism, pp. 45-80

13 Tues 15 Bonnie Honig, “Another cosmopolitanism? Law and politics in the new

Europe”, in Another Cosmopolitanism, pp. 102-127

Also read Benhabib’s reply, pp. 155-165

Fri 18 Will Kymlicka, “Liberal nationalism and cosmopolitan justice”, in

 Another Cosmopolitanism, pp. 128-144Also read Benhabib’s reply, pp. 165-177

14 Tues 22 PresentationsLong Paper due

Fri 25 Presentations

15 Tues 29 Presentations

May 5-12 Final exam due (date to be determined)