The stranger

by Best, Shaun

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Full title :The stranger / Shaun Best.

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"This book explores the concept of the stranger as a "modern" social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel's influential essay 'The Stranger', questioning the assumptions around what it means to be regarded as "strange", and identifying the consequences of being labelled a stranger. Organised both chronologically and thematically, it begins with Simmel's major essays on the stranger and culminates with an analysis of Zygmunt Bauman's thought on the subject, with each chapter introducing an idea or key theme initially discussed by Simmel before discussing the development of the theme in the work of others, including Schutz, Agamben, Derrida, Butler, Levinas and Rorty. The stranger is an enduring concept across many disciplines and is central to contemporary debates about refugees, asylum, the nature of inclusion, exclusion and the struggle for recognition"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (172 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780429857546, 0429857543, 9780429857522, 0429857527, 9780429857539, 0429857535, 9780429458378, 0429458371
DOI:10.4324/9780429458378
oclc:on1103918173
LC Classification:HM1131
Dewey Decimal:302.5/45

Introduction: The practice of estrangement -- 1. The city: Georg Simmel on the stranger -- 2. The suburbs and the world: Norbert Elias on incorporation of the stranger -- 3. The camps and the stranger: Bauman -- 4. The asylum and the self: Erving Goffman on the stigma and the stranger -- 5. The banlieue: Pierre Bourdieu and the excluded urban poor -- Conclusion: the stranger in contemporary society.

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