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63Julia Kristeva, Ross Guberman. The ends of Arendtian politics: A review of Hannah Arendt Norma Claire Moruzzi. Speaking through the mask: Hannah Arendt and the politics of social identity and Kimberley Curtis. Our sense of the real: Aesthetic experience and Arendtian politics (review)Hypatia 19 (4): 221-229. 2004.
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65Democracy and the Political UnconsciousCambridge University Press. 2008.Political philosopher Noelle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compulsion-has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror. McAfee argues that the quintessentially human desire to participate in a world with others is the key to understanding the public sphere and to creating a more democratic society, a world that all members can have a hand in shaping. But when some are effectively denied this participati…Read more
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1Subjectivity and Citizenship: Habermas and Kristeva on Agency in the Public SphereDissertation, The University of Texas at Austin. 1998.I address the question of whether certain poststructuralist theories of subjectivity can contribute to Habermas's project of deliberative democracy--whether effective political agency requires that we be the kinds of individuals supposed by the modern liberal tradition or whether effective citizenship is possible under a poststructuralist theory of the subject as an "open system." I find that poststructuralist subjectivities can be effective political agents. ;In part one, I introduce two someti…Read more
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Aesthetics |
19th Century Philosophy |
European Philosophy |
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