Democracy and the Foreigner

223 Pages·2001·0.58 MB·English

by  Bonnie Honig

DEMOCRACY
AND
O
THE FOREIGNER
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BONNIE HONIG
DEMOCRACY
AND
O
THE FOREIGNER
Princeton University Press
Princeton and Oxford
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Honig,Bonnie.
Democracyandtheforeigner/BonnieHonig.
p. cm.
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
ISBN0-691-08884-5(alk.paper)
1.Democracy.2.Immigrants.3.Nationalism.
4.Internationalism.I.Title.
JC423.H748 2001
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Formyparents,
DavidandSchewaHonig,
whoseforeignnessshapedtheirlives
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andmine
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Politicsexistsbecausethosewhohavenorighttobe
countedasspeakingbeingsmakethemselvesofsome
account,settingupacommunitybythefactofplacing
incommonawrongthatisnothingmorethanthis
veryconfrontation,thecontradictionoftwoworlds
inasingleworld:theworldwheretheyareand
theworldwheretheyarenot,theworldwherethere
issomething“between”themandthosewho
donotacknowledgethemasspeakingbeings
whocountandtheworldwherethereisnothing.
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–JacquesRancie`re
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Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
1
NATIVESANDFOREIGNERS:
SwitchingtheQuestion 1
2
THEFOREIGNERASFOUNDER 15
DorothyandtheWizard 15
Rousseau’sLawgiver 18