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Democracy and Its Others (Hardcover, Hardback)
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Democracy and Its Others (Hardcover, Hardback)
Series: Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy
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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. Understood in this light, foreignness
allows for new forms of democratic political unity to be imagined
that reject local practices which deprive individuals of political
membership solely on the basis of national citizenship. This
cosmopolitan model for citizenship provides a novel conceptual
framework that simultaneously upholds the legal importance of
democratic citizenship for political justice while ceaselessly
contesting the exclusionary logic of the nation-state that reserves
democratic rights for members of the nation alone.
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