{"product_id":"speaking-through-the-mask-norma-claire-moruzzi-9780801437854","title":"Speaking Through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norma Claire Moruzzi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801437857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801437854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2001 pg. 591","brand":"Norma Claire Moruzzi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086867017983,"sku":"9780801437854","price":90.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_efbe6a97-1808-4511-ac76-9e8f07e4f719.jpg?v=1769097039","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/speaking-through-the-mask-norma-claire-moruzzi-9780801437854","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}