{"product_id":"speaking-through-the-mask-hannah-arendt-and-the-politics-of-social-identity-9780801437854","title":"Speaking Through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Norma Claire Moruzzi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHannah 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSupplementing critical readings of Arendt's most significant texts (including \u003ci\u003eThe Human Condition\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRahel Varnhagen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The Life of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e) 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoruzzi uses Julia Kristeva's writings on abjection to clarify the textual dynamic in Arendt's work that constructs the social as a natural threat; Joan Riviere's and Mary Ann Doane's work on feminine masquerade amplify the theoretical possibilities implicit in Arendt's own discussion of the public, political mask. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46896258515095,"sku":"9780801437854","price":10438.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801437854.webp?v=1770357448","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/speaking-through-the-mask-hannah-arendt-and-the-politics-of-social-identity-9780801437854","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}