Democracy and the ForeignerPrinceton University Press, 2003 M02 2 - 204 páginas 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. |
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Freuds Moses | 7 |
THE FOREIGNER AS FOUNDER | 15 |
Girards Scapegoat | 33 |
THE FOREIGNER AS IMMIGRANT | 41 |
Convert or Migrant? | 48 |
The Ideal Immigrant | 55 |
THE FOREIGNER AS CITIZEN | 73 |
Class Mobility as American Citizenship | 80 |
The Universal | 92 |
Intimations of | 98 |
THE GENRES OF DEMOCRACY | 107 |
A Tale of Gothic Love | 115 |
Notes | 123 |
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Foreign Brides Family Ties and | 86 |