Benhabib said she hoped her departure might spur debate over her concerns at Harvard.
"Maybe there will be conversation after I leave," she said.
Benhabib said a new political science department program at Yale is a primary reason for her interest in relocating.
She described the program, dubbed "Rethinking Political Order: The Nation-State in the Emerging World," as "redefining the field in thematic, not area-specific ways. It's a bold new step and a bold new initiative...It's the way to reconfigure the field and reach across boundaries."
Benhabib's colleagues said they regretted the loss of one of their most eminent social theoreticians.
Benhabib is widely recognized as an expert on modern democratic theory, feminist theory and political philosophy.
She taught continental philosophy for the government department, whose primary emphasis is on Anglo-American analytical philosophy.
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