Democracy and Its Others

Jeffrey H. Epstein is Visiting Assistant Professor at Cal State University, Fullerton, USA.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Ethnos, Demos, and Foreignness
1.1. Playing Politics: Ethnos and the (Re)Unification of the Demos

Chapter 2: Hospitality or War? A Foreigner Approaches
2.1. The Piraeus
2.2. Cephalus, the Metic
2.3. Polemarchus, the Metic
2.4. Thrasymachus, the Indecidable Foreigner

Chapter 3: The Fearful Origins of Sovereignty in the Social Contract Tradition
3.1. The Fearful Origins of Sovereignty in Hobbes
3.2. The Fearful Origins of Sovereignty in Locke
3.3. The Fearful Origins of Sovereignty in Rousseau

Chapter 4: The Qualities of Sovereignty in the Social Contract Tradition
4.1. Hobbes’ Absolute Sovereign
4.2. Locke’s Neutral Umpire
4.3. Rousseau’s General Will
4.4. A Brief Summary of Sovereignty

Chapter 5: Foreignness, Sovereignty, and the Social Contract Tradition
5.1. Territorial Exclusions
5.2. Homogeneous Unity and the Sovereign Exclusion of Foreignness
5.3. Foreignness in Hobbes’ Theorization of Sovereignty
5.4. Foreignness in Locke’s Theorization of Sovereignty
5.5. Foreignness in Rousseau’s Theorization of Sovereignty

Chapter 6: The Naturalization of Artificial Sovereignty and Foreignness
6.1. Hobbes’ Naturalization of Artificial Sovereignty
6.2. Locke’s Naturalization of Artificial Sovereignty
6.3. Rousseau’s Naturalization of Artificial Sovereignty
6.4. The Naturalization of Artificial Foreignness

Chapter 7: The Foreign-Sovereign
7.1. The Quasi-Regime

Chapter 8: Foreign Unto It-self, The Democratic Nation-State
8.1. Democracy’s Others and the Protection of the Democratic Nation-State
8.2. Foreign Unto It-Self: Autoimmune Democracy
8.3. Democracy to Come and the Foreign-Sovereign

Chapter 9: The Foreign-Citizen at the Threshold of Democratic Cosmopolitanism
9.1. Universal Hospitality at the Border Between the Moral and Legal
9.2. Unconditional Hospitality and the Cosmopolitanism to Come
9.3. Democratic Iterations
9.4. The Foreign-Citizen

Bibliography
Index