The Attack of the Blob,9780226669908

The Attack of the Blob

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ISBN13: 9780226669908
ISBN10: 0226669904
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-10-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

One of the most brilliant political theorists of our time, Hannah Ardent intended her work to liberate, to convince us that the power to improve our flawed arrangements is in our hands. At the same time, Ardent 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 Ardent'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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
The Problem of the Blob
1(18)
Jewish Assimilation: The Pariah and the Parvenu
19(16)
Biographical Interlude: Philosophy, Love, Exile
35(17)
The Refugee as Parvenu and the Conscious Pariah
52(17)
The Birth of the Blob
69(29)
Writing The Human Condition
98(17)
Absent Authorities: Tocqueville and Marx
115(30)
Abstraction, Authority, and Gender
145(32)
The Social in The Human Condition
177(26)
Excising the Blob
203(23)
Why the Blob?
226(25)
Rethinking ``the Social''
251(34)
Notes 285(44)
Bibliography 329(10)
Index 339

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