Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 251863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanna Fenichel Pitkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanna Fenichel |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitkin |
| SIGNATURE | PITKIN H F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 371 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Concept of Representation
The Political Theory of Michael Rogin
A Conversation with Hanna Pitkin
An interview with Hanna Pitkin took place at the University of California, Berkeley, in the spring of 2014. What follows is an edited transcript; a video of the entire interview can be found at www.annualreviews.org/r/hannapitkin . Prof. Pitkin is the author of books well known to scholars and students in political theory and political science: The Concept of Representation (1967), Wittgenstein and Justice (1972), Fortune is a Woman: Gender and P…
La représentation politique
Représenter de façon substantielle veut dire agir dans l’intérêt des représentés, d’une manière qui soit réactive à leurs souhaits. Ceci peut être pensé et fait de nombreuses manières, mais il ne faut jamais que le représentant soit un expert indépendant ou un simple commis. Au niveau politique, cette définition de la représentation a plusieurs implications. D’abord, le représentant n’est ni l’agent de sa circonscription, ni un gouvernant nationa…
Representação: Palavras, Instituições E Idéias
Em argumento reconstrutivo, baseado em abordagem própria à filosofia da linguagem, a autora lança mão das transformações seculares nos usos da fala, nas cristalizações ideológicas no plano da filosofia política e nas práticas históricas de representação política para mostrar a emergência das feições distintivas da representação moderna
Representation and Democracy: Uneasy Alliance
The concept of ‘representation’ is puzzling not because it lacks a central definition, but because that definition implies a paradox (being present and yet not present) and is too general to help reconcile the word's many senses with their sometimes conflicting implications.Representation has a problematic relationship with democracy, with which it is often thoughtlessly equated. The two ideas have different, even conflicting, origins. Democracy …
The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social
Fortune is a woman: Gender and politics in the thought of Niccolò Machiavelli : with a new afterword
Hanna Pitkin's study of Machiavelli was the first to place gender systematically at the center of its exploration of his political thought. Rife with contradictions, Machiavelli's writings have led commentators to characterize him as everything from a civic republican to a proto-fascist. Acknowledging these contradictions, Pitkin shows that they reflect three distinct ways of thinking about politics, each of which is tied to a different understan…
The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social
Slippery Bentham: Some Neglected Cracks in the Foundation of Utilitarianism
Are Freedom and Liberty Twins
SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH HAVE A UNIQUE opportunity: They get to choose between and freedom. No other European language, ancient or modern, offers such a choice. I German knows only Freiheit, French only liberte, and so on. But what the choice worth? Almost all political theorists writing on these topics English assert or assume that the distinction makes no difference. Sir Isaiah Berlin, for instance, his famous essay on liberty, declares that he will…
Rethinking reification
Fortune is a woman: Gender and politics in the thought of Niccolo Machiavelli
Food and Freedom in The Flounder
I.Ji.\S WE WATCH in terrified fascination the coming of the third and last world war, in our age of universal television that brings starving children and dying soldiers nightly into each living room, we know less than ever how to think about responsibility. Whose fault is it that the world is as it is? Whose fault that I am as I am? Whose job is it to change the world? To change me? For those of us committed to the radical or the liberal left, t…
Justice: On Relating Private and Public
Private and public, it is important to realize, are relative terms. First, something may be public in the sense that it is accessible to all, open to scrutiny by anyone, visible as a focus of attention. Second, something may be public in the sense that it affects all or most of us, public in its consequences and significance. “Society” has “invaded” and “conquered the public realm,” but there is a significant ambiguity about just what this victor…
III. Inhuman Conduct and Unpolitical Theory: Michael Oakeshott's On Human Conduct
Comment on Orwin
Wittgenstein and Justice
Wittgensteinian Political Theory
Wittgenstein and Justice: On the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein for Social and Political Thought
Wittgenstein and Justice
Book Reviews Get access Wittgenstein and Justice. BY Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press 1972. Pp. xv + 360. Price $12.50, £5.65.) D. A. Lloyd Thomas D. A. Lloyd Thomas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 94, January 1974, Pages 76–77, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218290 Published: 01 January 1974
Wittgenstein and Justice
Wittgenstein and Justice: On the Significance of Ludwig Witgenstein for Social and Political Thought
Hanna Pitkin argues that Wittgenstein's later philosophy offers a revolutionary new conception of language, and hence a new and deeper understanding of ourselves and the world of human institutions and action.
IV. Context, Sense, and Concepts
The concept of representation
Justice: On Relating Private and Public
Private and public, it is important to realize, are relative terms. First, something may be public in the sense that it is accessible to all, open to scrutiny by anyone, visible as a focus of attention. Second, something may be public in the sense that it affects all or most of us, public in its consequences and significance. “Society” has “invaded” and “conquered the public realm,” but there is a significant ambiguity about just what this victor…
Representation and Democracy: Uneasy Alliance
The concept of ‘representation’ is puzzling not because it lacks a central definition, but because that definition implies a paradox (being present and yet not present) and is too general to help reconcile the word's many senses with their sometimes conflicting implications.Representation has a problematic relationship with democracy, with which it is often thoughtlessly equated. The two ideas have different, even conflicting, origins. Democracy …
Obligation and Consent-I
One might suppose that if political theorists are by now clear about anything at all, they should be clear about the problem of political obligation and the solution to it most commonly offered, the doctrine of consent. The greatest modern political theorists took up this problem and formulated this answer. The resulting theories are deeply imbedded in our American political tradition; as a consequence we are already taught a sort of rudimentary …
Obligation and Consent-II
A reexamination of even the most venerable traditional problems of political theory can sometimes yield surprisingly new and relevant results. The problem of political obligation, for example, and its most popular "solution", based on consent, turn out on reexamination to be rather different from what we have come to assume about them. The problem of political obligation resolves itself into at least four mutually related but partially independen…
Are Freedom and Liberty Twins
SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH HAVE A UNIQUE opportunity: They get to choose between and freedom. No other European language, ancient or modern, offers such a choice. I German knows only Freiheit, French only liberte, and so on. But what the choice worth? Almost all political theorists writing on these topics English assert or assume that the distinction makes no difference. Sir Isaiah Berlin, for instance, his famous essay on liberty, declares that he will…
Representação: Palavras, Instituições E Idéias
Em argumento reconstrutivo, baseado em abordagem própria à filosofia da linguagem, a autora lança mão das transformações seculares nos usos da fala, nas cristalizações ideológicas no plano da filosofia política e nas práticas históricas de representação política para mostrar a emergência das feições distintivas da representação moderna
Rethinking reification
Hobbes's Concept of Representation-I
It is not customary to regard Thomas Hobbes as a theorist particularly concerned with representation. Hardly any of the traditional commentaries on his thought even acknowledge that he mentions the term; and the index to Molesworth's standard edition of Hobbes's English works contains no reference to it. But the fact is that representation plays a central role in the Leviathan; and Hobbes's analysis of the concept is among the most serious, syste…
A Conversation with Hanna Pitkin
An interview with Hanna Pitkin took place at the University of California, Berkeley, in the spring of 2014. What follows is an edited transcript; a video of the entire interview can be found at www.annualreviews.org/r/hannapitkin . Prof. Pitkin is the author of books well known to scholars and students in political theory and political science: The Concept of Representation (1967), Wittgenstein and Justice (1972), Fortune is a Woman: Gender and P…
Slippery Bentham: Some Neglected Cracks in the Foundation of Utilitarianism
La représentation politique
Représenter de façon substantielle veut dire agir dans l’intérêt des représentés, d’une manière qui soit réactive à leurs souhaits. Ceci peut être pensé et fait de nombreuses manières, mais il ne faut jamais que le représentant soit un expert indépendant ou un simple commis. Au niveau politique, cette définition de la représentation a plusieurs implications. D’abord, le représentant n’est ni l’agent de sa circonscription, ni un gouvernant nationa…
III. Inhuman Conduct and Unpolitical Theory: Michael Oakeshott's On Human Conduct
Food and Freedom in The Flounder
I.Ji.\S WE WATCH in terrified fascination the coming of the third and last world war, in our age of universal television that brings starving children and dying soldiers nightly into each living room, we know less than ever how to think about responsibility. Whose fault is it that the world is as it is? Whose fault that I am as I am? Whose job is it to change the world? To change me? For those of us committed to the radical or the liberal left, t…
Hobbes's Concept of Representation—II
In chapter sixteen of the Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes develops a quite peculiar concept of representation, which he then applies in the political argument of the rest of the book. He maintains that a man is a representative insofar as he has been authorized, that is, given the right to act. The representative freely exercises this right, while the represented is bound by his action and responsible for it. That this definition is an incomplete accou…
The concept of representation
Hobbes's Concept of Representation—II
In chapter sixteen of the Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes develops a quite peculiar concept of representation, which he then applies in the political argument of the rest of the book. He maintains that a man is a representative insofar as he has been authorized, that is, given the right to act. The representative freely exercises this right, while the represented is bound by his action and responsible for it. That this definition is an incomplete accou…
Hobbes's Concept of Representation-I
It is not customary to regard Thomas Hobbes as a theorist particularly concerned with representation. Hardly any of the traditional commentaries on his thought even acknowledge that he mentions the term; and the index to Molesworth's standard edition of Hobbes's English works contains no reference to it. But the fact is that representation plays a central role in the Leviathan; and Hobbes's analysis of the concept is among the most serious, syste…
Obligation and Consent-I
One might suppose that if political theorists are by now clear about anything at all, they should be clear about the problem of political obligation and the solution to it most commonly offered, the doctrine of consent. The greatest modern political theorists took up this problem and formulated this answer. The resulting theories are deeply imbedded in our American political tradition; as a consequence we are already taught a sort of rudimentary …
Obligation and Consent-II
A reexamination of even the most venerable traditional problems of political theory can sometimes yield surprisingly new and relevant results. The problem of political obligation, for example, and its most popular "solution", based on consent, turn out on reexamination to be rather different from what we have come to assume about them. The problem of political obligation resolves itself into at least four mutually related but partially independen…
The concept of representation
Wittgenstein and Justice: On the Significance of Ludwig Witgenstein for Social and Political Thought
Hanna Pitkin argues that Wittgenstein's later philosophy offers a revolutionary new conception of language, and hence a new and deeper understanding of ourselves and the world of human institutions and action.
IV. Context, Sense, and Concepts
Wittgenstein and Justice
Wittgenstein and Justice
Wittgensteinian Political Theory
Wittgenstein and Justice: On the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein for Social and Political Thought
Wittgenstein and Justice
Book Reviews Get access Wittgenstein and Justice. BY Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press 1972. Pp. xv + 360. Price $12.50, £5.65.) D. A. Lloyd Thomas D. A. Lloyd Thomas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 94, January 1974, Pages 76–77, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218290 Published: 01 January 1974
Comment on Orwin
III. Inhuman Conduct and Unpolitical Theory: Michael Oakeshott's On Human Conduct
Justice: On Relating Private and Public
Private and public, it is important to realize, are relative terms. First, something may be public in the sense that it is accessible to all, open to scrutiny by anyone, visible as a focus of attention. Second, something may be public in the sense that it affects all or most of us, public in its consequences and significance. “Society” has “invaded” and “conquered the public realm,” but there is a significant ambiguity about just what this victor…
Fortune is a woman: Gender and politics in the thought of Niccolo Machiavelli
Food and Freedom in The Flounder
I.Ji.\S WE WATCH in terrified fascination the coming of the third and last world war, in our age of universal television that brings starving children and dying soldiers nightly into each living room, we know less than ever how to think about responsibility. Whose fault is it that the world is as it is? Whose fault that I am as I am? Whose job is it to change the world? To change me? For those of us committed to the radical or the liberal left, t…
Rethinking reification
Are Freedom and Liberty Twins
SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH HAVE A UNIQUE opportunity: They get to choose between and freedom. No other European language, ancient or modern, offers such a choice. I German knows only Freiheit, French only liberte, and so on. But what the choice worth? Almost all political theorists writing on these topics English assert or assume that the distinction makes no difference. Sir Isaiah Berlin, for instance, his famous essay on liberty, declares that he will…
Slippery Bentham: Some Neglected Cracks in the Foundation of Utilitarianism
The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social
Fortune is a woman: Gender and politics in the thought of Niccolò Machiavelli : with a new afterword
Hanna Pitkin's study of Machiavelli was the first to place gender systematically at the center of its exploration of his political thought. Rife with contradictions, Machiavelli's writings have led commentators to characterize him as everything from a civic republican to a proto-fascist. Acknowledging these contradictions, Pitkin shows that they reflect three distinct ways of thinking about politics, each of which is tied to a different understan…
The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social
Representation and Democracy: Uneasy Alliance
The concept of ‘representation’ is puzzling not because it lacks a central definition, but because that definition implies a paradox (being present and yet not present) and is too general to help reconcile the word's many senses with their sometimes conflicting implications.Representation has a problematic relationship with democracy, with which it is often thoughtlessly equated. The two ideas have different, even conflicting, origins. Democracy …
Representação: Palavras, Instituições E Idéias
Em argumento reconstrutivo, baseado em abordagem própria à filosofia da linguagem, a autora lança mão das transformações seculares nos usos da fala, nas cristalizações ideológicas no plano da filosofia política e nas práticas históricas de representação política para mostrar a emergência das feições distintivas da representação moderna
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