Seyla Benhabib’s 2024 Adorno Prize lecture. Theodor Adorno (left), Hannah Arendt (right). [Getty Images] On September 11, Seyla Benhabib was awarded the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt, whose past laureates have included Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas. This is an abridged version of the lecture Benhabib delivered in German on that occasion. I. I first arrived in Frankfurt, in this city of immigrants and exiles, in the fall of 1980, as a