She is a professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and ran the Ethics, Politics and Economics Programme at the same university. She was president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and won the Ernst Bloch Award in 2009 for her contributions to cultural dialogue in a global civilisation. She received honorary degrees from the Humanistic University of Utrecht, the University of Valencia, the University of Bogazici in Istanbul and the University of Geneva. Her books have been translated into more than 10 languages.

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