Summary
Political theorist whose Democracy and the Foreigner A Brief Genealogy of Jewish Republicanism: Parting Ways with Judith Butler sets within the republican tradition its closing argument recovers (footnote 39, PDF p.72).
Details
- Honig traces a discursive history of “the symbolic politics of foreignness,” making the case for a tradition of republicanism in which the foreignness of founders, immigrants and citizens is not exceptional but constitutive of a republican political sphere; she analyzes Hebrew Bible narratives as reframed through later iterations — the Moses of Exodus mutating into the Egyptian Moses of Freud’s Moses and Monotheism, and the foreigner-as-immigrant in the Book of Ruth rewritten by Cynthia Ozick and Julia Kristeva (footnote 39, PDF p.72).
- The work is dated 2003 in footnote 39 and 2001 in the Bibliography (PDF p.81); both dates are recorded on the source page under Open questions, not reconciled.
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A Brief Genealogy of Jewish Republicanism: Parting Ways with Judith Butler, Jewish republicanism, Seyla Benhabib