Democracy and the Foreigner

Name: Democracy and the Foreigner
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ISBN: 9780691114767

ISBN-10: 0691114765

ISBN-13: 9780691114767

Edition: 2001

Authors: Bonnie Honig

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Should we try to make foreigners more like us or keep them at bay to protect our culture? This dilemma underlies age-old debates that are still relevant. In this book, Honig reverses the question & asks: what might foreigners solve for us?

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/2/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 7.20" wide x 8.94" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Bonnie Honig is the Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and a senior research professor at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. Her books include "Democracy and the Foreigner" (Princeton) and "Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics".



Acknowledgments



Natives and Foreigners: Switching the Question



The Foreigner as Founder


Dorothy and the Wizard


Rousseau's Lawgiver


Freud's Moses


Girard's Scapegoat


Democracy and Foreignness



The Foreigner as Immigrant


The Book of Ruth as a Foreign-Founder Text


Ruth


Immigration and Founding


Ozick's Ruth: Convert or Migrant?


Kristeva's Ruth: The Ideal Immigrant


Gender and the Foreign-Founder


Kristeva's Orpahs: Cosmopolitanism without Foreignness


Mourning, Membership, Agency, and Loss: Ruth's Lessons for Politics



The Foreigner as Citizen


The Myth of an Immigrant America


Class Mobility as American Citizenship


Ethnic Bases of Social Democracy: Michael Walzer's Immigrant America


Foreign Brides, Family Ties, and New World Masculinity


Dramatizing Consent: The Universal Charms of American Democracy


Taking Liberties: Intimations of a Democratic Cosmopolitanism



The Genres of Democracy


Does Democracy Have a Genre?


Democracy's Romance: A Tale of Gothic Love


Notes


Bibliography


Index