Speaking through the mask
Subtitle: Hannah Arendt and the politics of social identity
By: Norma Claire Moruzzi
Series: Psychoanalysis and social theory
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Arendt, Hannah, -- 1906-1975 -- Contributions in political science; Group identity
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-201) and index