What's New in Arendt?

Political Theory

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 443-460

  Reinhardt, Mark ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 34248059799     PISSN: 00905917     EISSN: 15527476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0090591703031003005     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1968), 478–79;
2. The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 247.
3. Melvyn A. Hill, ed., Hannah Arendt, the Recovery of the Public World (New York: St. Martin's, 1979);
4. George Kateb, Hannah Arendt, Politics, Conscience, Evil (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld, 1983);
5. and Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt, for Love of the World (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982).
6. The previous review was Ann Lane, “Hannah Arendt: Theorist of Distinction(s),” Political Theory 25, no. 1 (1997).
7. Among the books overlooked by my essay: Eric B. Gorham, The Theater of Politics: Hannah Arendt, Political Science, and Higher Education (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000);
8. and Robert Pirro, Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001).
9. Four of the best examples of selective appropriation from the left: Seyla Benhabib, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996);
10. Lisa Jane Disch, Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994);
11. Bonnie Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993);
12. and Melissa A. Orlie, Living Ethically, Acting Politically (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997).
13. For an example of the debate over whether Arendt was a democrat, see Jeffrey C. Isaac, “Oases in the Desert: Hannah Arendt on Democratic Politics,” American Political Science Review 88 (March 1994);
14. and Sheldon Wolin, “Democracy and the Political,” in Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, edited by Lewis P. Hinchman and Sandra A. Hinchman (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994).
15. For Arendt's own views on schooling and democracy, see “The Crisis in Education,” in Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought (New York: Viking, 1968).
16. Among the brief introductions: Margaret Canovan, The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974);
17. and Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves, The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt (New York: Routledge, 1994).
18. Hinchman and Hinchman, Hannah Arendt. Bonnie Honig, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995).
19. See Linda M. G. Zerilli, “The Arendtian Body,” in Honig, Feminist Interpretations, 167–94.
20. The most well known of Arendt's accounts of her shift is offered in her letter to Gershom Scholem in Hannah Arendt, The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age, edited by Ron H. Feldman (New York: Grove, 1978), 245–51.
21. Arendt, The Origins, 66, 73–74, 87. Moruzzi does address a “dramatic context” that Arendt herself obscured: the interconnection between British anti-Semitism at home and empire abroad (Speaking, 74). But here, too, Moruzzi does not take the crucial step of working out what this portends for her claims on behalf of the affirmative possibilities of masquerade.
22. Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998). Moruzzi (pp. 20, 158–59) does briefly note an early essay in which Pitkin outlined a few of the arguments that became part of the book (Pitkin, “Conformism, Housekeeping and the Attack of the Blob: The Origins of Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social,” in Honig, Feminist Interpretations, 51–82). Other significant, highly relevant arguments that would have enriched Moruzzi's book, had she engaged them in a sustained way, include those of Susan Bickford, “In the Presence of Others: Arendt and Anzaldüa on the Paradox of Public Appearance,” and Melissa Orlie, “Forgiving Trespasses, Promising Futures,” both in Honig, Feminist Interpretations. To be clear, however, in claiming that several of Moruzzi's oversights deprive her claims about social identity of some of the force and originality they might have had, I am not making a general critique of the book's scholarly apparatus, for, as a rule, Speaking through the Mask is copiously footnoted and generous in its acknowledgements.
23. Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (New York: Viking, 1963), 69. Curtis discusses this particular passage on pp. 67–69 of her own book.
24. See, especially, Hannah Arendt, “The Crisis in Culture” and “The Crisis in Education,” both in Between Past and Future.