LEADER 04068nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910345143103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15803-1 010 $a9786612158032 010 $a1-4008-2481-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824816 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788472 035 $a(EBL)457829 035 $a(OCoLC)436059805 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000136521 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954137 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136521 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10083481 035 $a(PQKB)11247080 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457829 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43006 035 $a(DE-B1597)453536 035 $a(OCoLC)979741520 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824816 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788472 100 $a20010110d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDemocracy and the foreigner /$fBonnie Honig 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-08884-5 311 $a0-691-11476-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-198) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. NATIVES AND FOREIGNERS: Switching the Question -- $t2. THE FOREIGNER AS FOUNDER -- $t3. THE FOREIGNER AS IMMIGRANT -- $t4. THE FOREIGNER AS CITIZEN -- $t5. THE GENRES OF DEMOCRACY -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat 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. 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aImmigrants 606 $aNationalism 606 $aInternationalism 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aImmigrants. 615 0$aNationalism. 615 0$aInternationalism. 676 $a325.1 700 $aHonig$b Bonnie$0326410 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910345143103321 996 $aDemocracy and the Foreigner$92564588 997 $aUNINA