Bonnie Honig
Bonnie Honig | |
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Born | 1959 |
Nationality | Canadian and American |
Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University |
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Institutions | Brown University |
Bonnie Honig (born 1959),[1] is a political, feminist, and legal theorist specializing in democratic theory. In 2013-14, she became Nancy Duke Lewis Professor-Elect of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University, succeeding Anne Fausto-Sterling in the Chair in 2014–15. Honig was formerly Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation.
In April 2013, Honig delivered the “Thinking Out Loud” Lectures in Sydney, Australia. In the lectures, entitled “Public Things,” Honig draws on
Education
Born in 1959,
Career
Honig taught at
Before Public Things, Honig published Antigone, Interrupted (2013, Cambridge University Press). In 2012, her previous book, Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2009) was awarded the David Easton Prize.[5] Also in 2012, she won the Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory for "Ismene's Forced Choice: Sacrifice and Sorority in Sophocles' Antigone," published in Arethusa. From 2016-2017 she held a fellowship at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and conducted research on political thought.[6]
Research
Honig is most well known in political theory for her advocacy of a contestatory conception of democratic politics, also known as
Her second book, Democracy and the Foreigner (Princeton University Press, 2001), aims to illuminate the underestimated role of foreignness in democratic politics, particularly in the (re)founding of democratic communities. In doing so, she aims to shift the question from how to deal with foreigners to “What problems does foreignness solve for us?” This strategy of subverting binary oppositions (such as contestation vs. consensus, foreignness vs. familiarity, decision vs. deliberation, and in her third book Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law and Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2009), normality vs. exception) by shifting the question of a well-known debate in order to obtain a new and revealing perspective, recurs throughout her work and the insights that result constitute her distinctive contributions to political theory.
In Antigone, Interrupted (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Honig intervenes in the recent turn to mourning and lamentation in political theory and cultural studies. By way of a rereading of Sophocles' tragedy, she counters the privileging of mortality and vulnerability as part of an anti-sovereign politics. Instead, Honig offers an “agonistic humanism” that stresses equality in life, not death, and an activist politics of counter-sovereignty.
Personal life
Honig is married to MIT economist Michael Whinston.[8] Her son Noah is the CEO of
Selected bibliography
Books
- Honig, Bonnie (1993). Political theory and the displacement of politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801480720.
- Honig, Bonnie (2001). Democracy and the foreigner. Princeton, New Jersey Oxford: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691114767.
- Honig, Bonnie (2009). Emergency politics: paradox, law, democracy. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691152592.
- Honig, Bonnie (2013). Antigone, interrupted. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107668157.
- Honig, Bonnie (2017). Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair. Fordham, New York. ISBN 0823276406
(Co-)edited books
- Honig, Bonnie (1995). Feminist interpretations of Hannah Arendt. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271014470.
- Honig, Bonnie; Mapel, David R. (2002). Skepticism, individuality, and freedom the reluctant liberalism of Richard Flathman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816639700.
- Honig, Bonnie; ISBN 9780199548439.
- Honig, Bonnie; Marso, Lori (2015). Politics, Theory Film: Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016. ISBN 9780190600174
Selected articles
- Honig, Bonnie (March 1991). "Declarations of independence: Arendt and Derrida on the problem of founding a republic". The American Political Science Review. 85 (1): 97–113. JSTOR 1962880.
- Honig, Bonnie (February 2007). "Between decision and deliberation: political paradox in democratic theory". The American Political Science Review. 101 (1): 1–17. S2CID 56214768.
- Honig, Bonnie (February 2009). "Antigone's lament, Creon's grief: mourning, membership and the politics of exception". Political Theory. 37 (1). Sage via JSTOR: 5–43. S2CID 154871100.
Interviews
Ordinary Emergences in Democratic Theory: An Interview with Bonnie Honig
By Rossello, Diego; Honig, Bonnie. Philosophy Today Vol. 59, No. 4
References
- ^ "Honig, Bonnie". Library of Congress. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
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- ^ Tattersall, Amanda; Honig, Bonnie; ChangeMakers (2020). "Change Maker Chat with Bonnie Honig: Democracy and Critical Thinking". Commons Social Change Library. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
- ^ "Bonnie Honig Weds Michael Whinston". The New York Times. 1990-07-09.
- ^ Sara Rimer , "Rejection From Leader Who Vows Diversity", New York Times, May 19, 1997.
- ^ "Bonnie Honig Awarded the David Easton Award - American Bar Foundation".
- ^ katzcenterupenn. "Bonnie Honig". Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Archived from the original on 2020-07-29. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ^ American Political Science Association
- ^ "Bonnie Honig Weds Michael Whinston". The New York Times. 1990-07-09.
- ^ "Noah Whinston". Forbes.
- JSTOR j.ctt7t3z7.
- ^ "Honig: Scholar Behind the Uproar | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
Further reading
- Honig, Bonnie; Pearce, Nick (6 March 2013). "Juncture interview: Bonnie Honig". Institute of Public Policy Research. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- Browning, Gary (2012), "A conversation with Bonnie Honig: exploring agnostic humanism.", in Browning, Gary; Dimova-Cookson, Maria; ISBN 9780230303058
External links
- Profile page: Bonnie Honig Researchers, Brown University
- Profile page: Bonnie Honig Archived 2017-10-26 at the Wayback Machine American Bar Foundation