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The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social

By Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0226669912, 9780226669915
Open Library ID
OL9835366M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11912399 bytes)
Pages
374\186
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

One of the most brilliant political theorists of our time, Hannah Arendt intended her work to liberate, to convince us that the power to improve our flawed arrangements is in our hands. At the same time, Arendt developed a metaphor of "the social" as an alien, appearing as if from outer space to gobble up human freedom; she blamed it—not us—for our public paralysis. In The Attack of the Blob, Hanna Pitkin seeks to resolve this seeming paradox by tracing Arendt's notion of "the social" throughout her writings. Doing this, Pitkin developes a resolution that considers everything from language to the nature of political theory itself.

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