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The Attack of the Blob : Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social
The Attack of the Blob Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social
Author: Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
"The European intellectual Hannah Arendt worried about the tendency of social structures to take on a life of their own and paralyze individual action. Pitkin . . . is determined to trace our problems to the actions of individuals. This book is thus a battle of wits. . . . [A] vivid sketch of the conflict between two basic outlooks."--Library...  more »

"[O]ne leaves this book feeling enriched and challenged. Pitkin prompts us to rethink our understanding of Arendt and to demythologize the pervasive sense of political helplessness Arendt herself sought so hard to articulate. . . . [A] cause for celebration."--Peter Baehr, Times Literary Supplement

"[Arendt] is certainly among the most original and outstanding political theorists of the twentieth century. . . . It is difficult to imagine a hostile critic examining more effectively than Pitkin . . . Arendt's concept of the social, for hostility would inhibit the acquisition of the mastery of Arendt's texts that Pitkin displays at every turn."--Peter Berkowitz, New Republic
ISBN-13: 9780226669908
ISBN-10: 0226669904
Publication Date: 10/1/1998
Pages: 374
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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