Speaking through the mask : Hannah Arendt and the politics of social identity
"Hannah Arendt was a political theorist famously resistant to both psychoanalysis and feminism. But in Speaking through the Mask, Norma Claire Moruzzi incorporates concepts from feminist psychoanalytic theory into a new interpretive approach to Arendt's work. Supplementing critical readings of several of Arendt's most significant texts (including On Revolution, Rahel Varnhagen, and The Origins of Totalitarianism) with contemporary arguments about constructed social identity, Moruzzi deconstructs Arendt's opposing the social and the political, and reveals Arendt's own textual focus on a politics of agency based on enacted social identity."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2000
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y., ©2000
xiv, 205 pages ; 24 cm.
9780801437854, 0801437857
962872035
The human condition as embodied
The social question
The mask and the masquerade
Speaking as Rahel : a feminine masquerade
Finding a voice : the author and the other in The origins of totalitarianism
The charlatan : Benjamin Disraeli
Race and economics
The banality of evil
Politics as masquerade