03264cam a2200481 a 4500 100299 20230410120912.0 980209s1998 ilu b 001 0deng 9780226669915 (pbk. : alk. paper) NLGGC 167638637 YDXCP 1491531 NZ1 4492334 AU@ 000013737194 ZWZ 059159766 DEBSZ 069952582 (OCoLC)38520086 (OCoLC)60191324 (OCoLC)171545597 (OCoLC)493280490 320.5 JC 251.74 P684a 1998 Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel. The attack of the blob : Hannah Arendt's concept of the social / Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998. vii, 365 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-337) and index. The problem of the blob -- Jewish assimilation: the pariah and the parvenu -- Biographical interlude: philosophy, love, exile -- The refugee as parvenu and the conscious pariah -- The birth of the blob -- Writing The human condition -- Absent authorities: Tocqueville and Marx -- Abstraction, authority, and gender -- The social in The human condition -- Excising the blob -- Why the blob? -- Rethinking "the social." One of the most brilliant political theorists of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt intended her work to liberate and empower, to restore our capacity for concerted political action, 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, all-consuming monster appearing as if from outer space to gobble up human freedom; she blamed it - not us - for our public paralysis and depoliticization. How can we understand her vision of the social that seems to conflict with her most important teaching? The Attack of the Blob is an imaginative and elegantly written study in which Hanna Pitkin seeks to resolve this paradox by tracing Arendt's notion of "the social" from her earliest writings to The Human Condition and beyond. Interpreting each work in its historical and personal context, Pitkin develops an answer that considers language and rhetoric, psychology and gender, authority, abstraction, and even the nature of political theory itself. Political science Philosophy. Ciencias políticas Filosofía. Idees politiques. Sociabiliteit (sociale wetenschappen) gtt Individu en samenleving. gtt Politieke filosofie. gtt Arendt, Hannah, (1906-1975) ram Philosophie politique. ram Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/98013333.html Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi052/98013333.html Baker & Taylor BKTY 37.50 37.50 0226669904 0003129291 active Baker and Taylor BTCP 98013333 Baker & Taylor BKTY 22.00 22.00 0226669912 0003518035 active YBP Library Services YANK 1688280 lcc bk FHM C0 DRFGD 54100 54100 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 1 0 JC 251.74 P684a 1998 00000094023 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 bk