{"product_id":"speaking-through-the-mask","title":"Speaking Through the Mask","description":"\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":"Default Title","offer_id":54222144340312,"sku":"9780801437854","price":85.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780801437854.jpg?v=1779506143","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/speaking-through-the-mask","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}