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Democracy and Its Others About the series Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy encourages a sustained dialogue between the most important intellectual currents in recent European philosophy—including phenomenology, deconstruction, hermeneutics—and key political theories and concepts, both classical and modern. In doing so, it not only sheds new light on today’s shifting political realities but also explores the previously neglected consequences of the two disciplines. Series editor: Michael Marder Other volumes in the series include: Medialogies: Inflationary Media and the Crisis of Reality, David R. Castillo and William Egginton The Sacred and the Political: Explorations on Mimesis, Violence and Religion, edited by Elisabetta Brighi and Antonio Cerella The Democracy of Knowledge, Daniel Innerarity (translated by Sandra Kingery) The Voice of Conscience: A Political Genealogy of Western Ethical Experience, Mika Ojakangas The Politics of Nihilism, edited by Nitzan Lebovic and Roy Ben-Shai On Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Martin Heidegger (edited by Peter Trawny, Marcia Cavalcante Schuback and Michael Marder, translated by Andrew J. Mitchell) Deconstructing Zionism, Michael Marder and Santiago Zabala Heidegger on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback, Michael Marder and Peter Trawny The Metaphysics of Terror, Rasmus Ugilt The Negative Revolution, Artemy Magun The Voice of Conscience, Mika Ojakangas Democracy and Its Others Jeffrey H. Epstein Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc NEW YORK • LONDON • OXFORD • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 1385 Broadway 50 Bedford Square New York London NY 10018 WC1B 3DP USA UK www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2016 Paperback edition fi rst published 2017 © Jeffrey H. Epstein, 2016 Jeffrey H. Epstein has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. British Library Cataloguing- in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 9781501312007 PB: 9781350061095 ePDF: 9781501312014 ePub: 9781501312021 Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Series: Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy Typeset by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 Ethnos, Demos, and Foreignness 13 Playing politics: ethnos and the (re)unification of the demos 15 2 Hospitality or War? A Foreigner Approaches 24 The Piraeus 26 Cephalus, the metic 31 Polemarchus, the metic 34 Thrasymachus, the indecidable foreigner 39 3 The Fearful Origins of Sovereignty in the Social Contract Tradition 47 The fearful origins of sovereignty in Hobbes 48 The fearful origins of sovereignty in Locke 56 The fearful origins of sovereignty in Rousseau 58 4 The Qualities of Sovereignty in the Social Contract Tradition 63 Hobbes’ absolute sovereign 63 Locke’s neutral umpire 71 Rousseau’s general will 78 A brief summary of sovereignty 85 5 Foreignness, Sovereignty, and the Social Contract Tradition 87 Territorial exclusions 88 Homogeneous unity and the sovereign exclusion of foreignness 91 Foreignness in Hobbes’ theorization of sovereignty 96 Foreignness in Locke’s theorization of sovereignty 103 Foreignness in Rousseau’s theorization of sovereignty 111 6 The Naturalization of Artificial Sovereignty and Foreignness 130 Hobbes’ naturalization of artificial sovereignty 132 Locke’s naturalization of artificial sovereignty 137 Rousseau’s naturalization of artificial sovereignty 146 The naturalization of artificial foreignness 153 vi Contents 7 The Foreign-Sovereign 159 The quasi- regime 165 8 Foreign Unto It-Self, the Democratic Nation-State 174 Democracy’s others and the protection of the democratic nation- state 174 Foreign unto it- self: autoimmune democracy 182 Democracy to come and the foreign- sovereign 200 9 The Foreign-Citizen at the Threshold of Democratic Cosmopolitanism 216 Universal hospitality at the border between the moral and legal 217 Unconditional hospitality and the cosmopolitanism to come 219 Democratic iterations 231 The foreign- citizen 240 Notes 251 Bibliography 301 Index 306 Acknowledgments I am honored to thank all of the friends and colleagues who dedicated countless hours discussing, critiquing, and improving this book. I am especially indebted to Eduardo Mendieta who influenced my thinking and supported this project through every phase. I am grateful to Linda Alcoff, Ed Casey, and Anne O’Byrne whose comments on earlier drafts were frequent and challenging. At the earliest stages, the generous inquiries of Emiliano Diaz, Whitney Howell, Jane Jones, Greg Kirk, and Adam Rosenfeld helped to shape and refine what would come. Finally, a special debt of gratitude is owed to Daniela Winer whose insights were essential to identifying the central features of this work and their relevance to contemporary events.
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