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Democracy and the Foreigner by Honig, Bonnie; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Democracy and the Foreigner about?
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 bu
Who reads Democracy and the Foreigner?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Honig, Bonnie;
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786612158032
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Social Science