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Book SynopsisHanna Fenichel Pitkin has made key contributions to the field of political philosophy, pushing forward and clarifying the ways that political theorists think about action as the exercise of political freedom. In so doing, she has offered insightful studies of the problems of modern politics that theorists are called to address, and has addressed them herself in a range of theoretical genres.. This collection of her works approaches each of these dimensions of Pitkin's contributions in turn:
The Modern Condition and the Impetus to Theorize: Pitkin has offered sustained reflection on what aspects of modern political life prompt the impulse to theorize politics. Highlighting the pitfalls that modern life and philosophy also present for that enterprise, she suggests an agenda for political theorizing that engages the dilemmas of modernity in ways that grasp the importance of paradox as a portal of insight into the modern condition, and eschews attempts at easy res
Table of Contents
Introduction: Dean Mathiowetz PART I Politics 1. Political Theory and the Modern Predicament (1972) 2. Food and Freedom in The Flounder (1984) 3. Slippery Bentham (1990) 4. Obligation and Consent (1965-66) PART II Judgment 5. Justice: Socrates and Thrasymachus (1972) 6. Relativism: A Lecture (1984) 7. Justice: On Relating Private and Public (1981) 8. Judgment and Autonomy (1984) Part III Action 9. The Citizen and His Rivals (1984) 10. The Mandate Independence Controversy (1967) 11. Representation and Democracy: Uneasy Alliance (2004) 12. Absent Authority: Marx (1998) 13. The Social in The Human Condition (1998) An interview with Hannah Fenichel Pitkin: Questions from Dean Mathiowetz
