Bøker av Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

Raising questions about what freedom means today, this study seeks to resolve the paradox of Hannah Arendt's ideas. It criticizes Arendt's flawed concept but insists on the urgent reality of the problem that concept was intended to address, thus continuing her enterprise.

Argues that Wittgenstein's later philosophy offers a revolutionary conception of language, and hence a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world of human institutions and action.

This study of Machiavelli systematically places gender at the centre of its exploration of his political thought. This edition includes an afterword which discusses the book's critical reception and situates the book's arguments in the context of recent interpretations of Machiavelli's thought.

Being concerned with representation, this book is about an idea, a concept, a word. It is primarily a conceptual analysis, not a historical study of the way in which representative government has evolved, nor yet an empirical investigation of the behavior of contemporary representatives or the expectations voters have about them.