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Democracy and its others /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Epstein, Jeffrey H., 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, [2016]
Colección:Political theory and contemporary philosophy.
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  • Cover page ; Halftitle page ; Series page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Ethnos, Demos, and Foreignness; Playing politics: ethnos and the (re)unification of the demos; 2 Hospitality or War? A Foreigner Approaches; The Piraeus; Cephalus, the metic; Polemarchus, the metic; Thrasymachus, the indecidable foreigner; 3 The Fearful Origins of Sovereignty in the Social Contract Tradition; The fearful origins of sovereignty in Hobbes; The fearful origins of sovereignty in Locke; The fearful origins of sovereignty in Rousseau.
  • 4 The Qualities of Sovereignty in the Social Contract TraditionHobbes' absolute sovereign; Locke's neutral umpire; Rousseau's general will; A brief summary of sovereignty; 5 Foreignness, Sovereignty, and the Social Contract Tradition; Territorial exclusions; Homogeneous unity and the sovereign exclusion of foreignness; Foreignness in Hobbes' theorization of sovereignty; Foreignness in Locke's theorization of sovereignty; Foreignness in Rousseau's theorization of sovereignty; 6 The Naturalization of Artificial Sovereignty and Foreignness; Hobbes' naturalization of artificial sovereignty.
  • Locke's naturalization of artificial sovereigntyRousseau's naturalization of artificial sovereignty; The naturalization of artificial foreignness; 7 The Foreign-Sovereign; The quasi-regime; 8 Foreign Unto It-Self, the Democratic Nation-State; Democracy's others and the protection of the democratic nation-state; Foreign unto it-self: autoimmune democracy; Democracy to come and the foreign-sovereign; 9 The Foreign-Citizen at the Threshold of Democratic Cosmopolitanism; Universal hospitality at the border between the moral and legal; Unconditional hospitality and the cosmopolitanism to come.
  • Democratic iterationsThe foreign-citizen; Notes; Bibliography; Index.