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Norma Claire Moruzzi - Speaking through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity - 9780801437854 - V9780801437854
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Speaking through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity

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Description for Speaking through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity Hardback. Series: Psychoanalysis and Social Theory. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 550.

Hannah Arendt was famously resistant to both psychoanalysis and feminism. Nonetheless, psychoanalytic feminist theory can offer a new interpretive strategy for deconstructing her equally famous opposition between the social and the political.

Supplementing critical readings of Arendt's most significant texts (including The Human Condition, On Revolution, Rahel Varnhagen, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Eichmann in Jerusalem, and The Life of the Mind) with the insights of contemporary psychoanalytic, feminist, and social theorists, Norma Claire Moruzzi reconstitutes the relationship in Arendt's texts between constructed social identity and political agency.

Moruzzi uses Julia Kristeva's writings on abjection to clarify the textual dynamic ... Read more

In a bold interdisciplinary synthesis, Moruzzi develops the social applications of a concept (the mask) Arendt had described as limited to the strictly political realm: a new conception of (political) agency as (social) masquerade, traced through the marginal but emblematic textual figures who themselves enact the politics of social identity.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801437854
SKU
V9780801437854
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About Norma Claire Moruzzi
Norma Claire Moruzzi is Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Reviews for Speaking through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity
Speaking through the Mask is a thoughtful, closely reasoned work... It succeeds as a thoroughgoing feminist reading of Arendt, written as much to show how feminist theory challenges Arendt's blind spots as to illustrate what Arendt has to teach feminism... This is an original and important book, one that manages at once to talk back to Hannah Arendt and to ... Read more

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