pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: DEMOCRACY AND THE FOREIGNER
By: Bonnie Honig
Format: Paperback

List price: £35.00
Our price: £28.00
Discount:
20% off
You save: £7.00
ISBN 10: 0691114765
ISBN 13: 9780691114767
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 0 available
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 13 January, 2003
Pages: 224
Description: Probes the symbolic politics of foreignness. This book shows not only how our debates over foreignness help shore up our national or democratic identities, but how anxieties endemic to liberal democracy themselves animate ambivalence toward foreignness.
Synopsis: What should we do about foreigners? Should we try to make them more like us or keep them at bay to protect our democracy, our culture, our well-being? This dilemma underlies age-old debates about immigration, citizenship, and national identity that are strikingly relevant today. In Democracy and the Foreigner, Bonnie Honig reverses the question: What problems might foreigners solve for us? Hers is not a conventional approach. Instead of lauding the achievements of individual foreigners, she probes a much larger issue--the symbolic politics of foreignness. In doing so she shows not only how our debates over foreignness help shore up our national or democratic identities, but how anxieties endemic to liberal democracy themselves animate ambivalence toward foreignness. Central to Honig's arguments are stories featuring ''foreign-founders,'' in which the origins or revitalization of a people depend upon a foreigner's energy, virtue, insight, or law. From such popular movies as The Wizard of Oz, Shane, and Strictly Ballroom to the biblical stories of Moses and Ruth to the myth of an immigrant America, from Rousseau to Freud, foreignness is represented not just as a threat but as a supplement for communities periodically requiring renewal. Why? Why do people tell stories in which their societies are dependent on strangers? One of Honig's most surprising conclusions is that an appreciation of the role of foreigners in (re)founding peoples works neither solely as a cosmopolitan nor a nationalist resource. For example, in America, nationalists see one archetypal foreign-founder--the naturalized immigrant--as reconfirming the allure of deeply held American values, whereas to cosmopolitans this immigrant represents the deeply transnational character of American democracy. Scholars and students of political theory, and all those concerned with the dilemmas democracy faces in accommodating difference, will find this book rich with valuable and stimulating insights.
Publication: US
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:
A RIGHT TO INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION? (HB)
ANTIGONE, INTERRUPTED (HB)
ANTIGONE, INTERRUPTED (PB)
DEMOCRACY AND THE FOREIGNER
DEMOCRACY AND THE FOREIGNER (HB)
EMERGENCY POLITICS
EMERGENCY POLITICS (HB)
EMERGENCY POLITICS (PB)
FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF HANNAH ARENDT (HB)
FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF HANNAH ARENDT (PB)
FEMINIST THEORY OF REFUSAL (HB)
POLITICAL THEORY AND THE DISPLACEMENT OF POLITICS
POLITICAL THEORY AND THE DISPLACEMENT OF POLITICS
POLITICAL THEORY AND THE DISPLACEMENT OF POLITICS (HB)
POLITICAL THEORY AND THE DISPLACEMENT OF POLITICS (HB)
POLITICAL THEORY AND THE DISPLACEMENT OF POLITICS (PB)
POLITICS, THEORY, AND FILM (HB)
POLITICS, THEORY, AND FILM (PB)
PRESIDENT`S HOUSE IS EMPTY - LOSING AND GAINING PUBLIC GOODS (PB)
PUBLIC THINGS
PUBLIC THINGS
PUBLIC THINGS (HB)
PUBLIC THINGS (PB)
SHELL-SHOCKED
SHELL-SHOCKED (HB)
SKEPTICISM, INDIVIDUALITY AND FREEDOM (HB)
SKEPTICISM, INDIVIDUALITY AND FREEDOM (PB)
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF POLITICAL THEORY (PB)
TOWARD A FEMINIST ETHICS OF NONVIOLENCE
TOWARD A FEMINIST ETHICS OF NONVIOLENCE (HB)


TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £7.29
more details
Hope In The Dark (Paperback)
Canongate Books Ltd
Our Price : £8.02
more details
The Social Contract (Paperback)
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Our Price : £3.64
more details
The Biggest Secret (Paperback)
Bridge of Love Publications
Our Price : £13.20
more details
Capital (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £13.86
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 SOCIAL SCIENCES
 politics & government
 political science & theory


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 






Early Learning
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB) Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
add to basket

Early Learning
add to basket

Picture Book
All the Things We Carry PB What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
add to basket