Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2016]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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vi, 309 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
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Political theory and contemporary philosophy
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1 Ethnos, Demos, and Foreignness; Playing politics: ethnos and the (re)unification of the demos -- 2. Hospitality or War? A Foreigner Approaches -- 3. The Fearful Origins of Sovereignty in the Social Contract Tradition -- 4. The Qualities of Sovereignty in the Social Contract Tradition -- 5. Foreignness, Sovereignty, and the Social Contract Tradition -- 6. The Naturalization of Artificial Sovereignty and Foreignness -- 7. The Foreign-Sovereign -- 8. Foreign Unto It-Self, the Democratic Nation-State -- 9. The Foreign-Citizen at the Threshold of Democratic Cosmopolitanism.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Today's unprecedented levels of human migration present urgent challenges to traditional conceptualizations of national identity, nation-state sovereignty, and democratic citizenship. Foreigners are commonly viewed as outsiders whose inclusion within or exclusion from "the people" of the democratic state rests upon whether they benefit or threaten the unity of the nation. Against this instrumentalization of the foreigner, this book traces the historical development of the concepts of sovereignty and foreignness through the thought of philosophers such as Plato, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Derrida, and Benhabib in order to show that foreignness is a structural feature of sovereignty that cannot be purged or assimilated.