Speaking through the Mask

Hannah 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.

Supplementing critical readings of Arendt''s most significant texts (including The Human Condition, On Revolution, Rahel Varnhagen, The Origins of Totalitaria...