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Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 8, No. 4, 463-489 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/10778004008004005

Seyla Benhabib's Interactive Universalism: Fragile Hope for a Radically Democratic Conversational Model

Sharon L. Bracci

University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Seyla Benhabib reformulates discourse ethics into a radically democratized strong conversationalmodel to address communitarian, feminist, and postmodernist critiques ofHabermasian formulations. This model of interactive universalism extends concepts ofuniversal moral respect and egalitarian reciprocity, enlarged thinking, and generalizedand concrete Others. The procedural constraints of interactive universalism provideresearchers a normative framework for investigating dialogical or conversational virtuesthat enable the model to thrive when deliberators engage in practical moral reasoning.Benhabib's own engagement of critics of discourse ethics suggests one dialogical virtuethat has moral weight: a modest, if fragile, hope that this conversational model canchange deliberators and democratic discourse for the better.

Key Words: interactive universalism • enlarged thinking • generalized and concrete others • dialogical virtues


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