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Onder het motto "re-reading the canon" geven de essays in dit boek een boeiend beeld van de diversiteit binnen het huidige feminisme én ontwerpen ze nieuwe, intrigerende interpretaties van Hannah Arendts politiek filosofie.

Feminism--Philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Feminist theory --- Feministische theorie --- Theory of feminism --- Théorie féministe --- Feminist theory. --- 1 ARENDT, HANNAH --- Filosofie. Psychologie--ARENDT, HANNAH --- 1 ARENDT, HANNAH Filosofie. Psychologie--ARENDT, HANNAH --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Philosophy --- Arendt, Hannah --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Arendt, Hannah, --- Political and social views --- Blücher, Hannah Arendt, --- Bluecher, Hannah Arendt, --- Ārento, Hanna, --- Arendt, H. --- Arendt, Khanna, --- ארנדט, חנה --- アーレント, ハンナ, --- Theory --- Book

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What 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.

Democracy --- Immigrants --- Internationalism --- Nationalism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Political messianism --- Intellectual cooperation --- International cooperation --- Cosmopolitanism --- International education --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Democracy. --- Immigrants. --- Internationalism. --- Nationalism. --- Sociology of minorities --- Political systems

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03 In this book, Bonnie Honig rethinks that established relation between politics and political theory. From liberal to communitarian to republican, political theorists of opposing positions often treat political theory less as an exploration of politics than as a series of devices of its displacement. Honig characterizes Kant, Rawls, and Sandel as virtue theorists of politics, arguing that they rely on principles of right, rationality, community, and law to protect their political theories from the conflict and uncertainty of political reality. Drawing on Nietzsche and Arendt, as well as Machiavelli and Derrida, Honig explores an alternative politics of virtù, which treats the disruptions of political order as valued sites of democratic freedom and individuality.

Democracy. --- Liberalism. --- Political science --- Political science. --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Social sciences --- Political philosophy --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- State, The --- Philosophy. --- Democracy --- Liberalism --- 811 Filosofie --- Philosophy

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An acclaimed political theorist offers a fresh, interdisciplinary analysis of the politics of refusal, highlighting the promise of a feminist politics that does not simply withdraw from the status quo but also transforms it. The Bacchae, Euripides’s fifth-century tragedy, famously depicts the wine god Dionysus and the women who follow him as indolent, drunken, mad. But Bonnie Honig sees the women differently. They reject work, not out of laziness, but because they have had enough of women’s routine obedience. Later they escape prison, leave the city of Thebes, explore alternative lifestyles, kill the king, and then return to claim the city. Their “arc of refusal,” Honig argues, can inspire a new feminist politics of refusal. Refusal, the withdrawal from unjust political and economic systems, is a key theme in political philosophy. Its best-known literary avatar is Herman Melville’s Bartleby, whose response to every request is, “I prefer not to.” A feminist politics of refusal, by contrast, cannot simply decline to participate in the machinations of power. Honig argues that a feminist refusal aims at transformation and, ultimately, self-governance. Withdrawal is a first step, not the end game. Rethinking the concepts of refusal in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Adriana Cavarero, and Saidiya Hartman, Honig places collective efforts toward self-governance at refusal’s core and, in doing so, invigorates discourse on civil and uncivil disobedience. She seeks new protagonists in film, art, and in historical and fictional figures including Sophocles’s Antigone, Ovid’s Procne, Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp, Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna, and Muhammad Ali. Rather than decline the corruptions of politics, these agents of refusal join the women of Thebes first in saying no and then in risking to undertake transformative action.

Autonomy. --- Feminist theory. --- Political participation. --- Justice, Administration of --- Political aspects. --- Agamben. --- Antigone. --- Arendt. --- Bacchae. --- Bartleby. --- Butler. --- Cavarero. --- Euripides. --- Fabulation. --- Gender. --- Inclination. --- Inoperativity. --- Modern Times. --- Muhammad Ali. --- Refusal. --- Saidiya Hartman. --- Sara Ahmed. --- Sexuality. --- The Fits. --- civil disobedience. --- conscientious objection. --- regicide.