Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

Hanna Fenichel Pitkin ( born July 17, 1931 in Berlin) is an American political scientist. She is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.

Life

Hanna Pitkin grew up in Berlin. Her father was the Jewish psychoanalyst Otto Fenichel. Together with her ​​family, she emigrated via Prague and Norway in the United States. Arno Waschkuhn describes that Pitkin grew up in a multilingual and multicultural environments. 1961 Pitkin doctorate at the University of California. She taught in addition to the University of California, among others, at the University of Wisconsin.

Work

The Concept of Representation

" For the understanding of the concept of representation, it is necessary to present the various normative models to then check their reality content can. [ ...] This question is Hanna F. Pitkin investigated, whose 1967 study called " The Concept of Representation " on the various aspects of political representation until today one of the most important works and can be described as the standard work on the subject. "

The following three basic normative significance levels of political representation Hanna Pitkin sets free:

  • Formalist representation
  • Authorize
  • Be accountable,
  • Standing -For perspective;
  • Descriptive representation
  • Symbolic Representation
  • Acting For perspective;
  • Substantive representation

Other priorities

" Pitkins interests are widely spread in European political theory from antiquity to the present, psychoanalysis and the philosophy of language and text analysis. Its work has been in the investigation of the role of gender in the history of political ideas. "

Publications

  • The Concept of Representation, Berkeley / LosAngeles 1967.
  • (Ed.): Representation, New York 1969.
  • Wittgenstein and Justice, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1972 ( Neuaufl. Berkeley, among others in 1993 with a new preface).
  • Fortune Is a Woman. Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolü Machiavelli, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1984 ( Neuaufl. Berkeley, among others in 1999 with a new afterword ).
  • The Attack of the Blob. Hannah Arendt 's Concept of the Social, Chicago / London 1998.
  • Representation and Democracy: Uneasy Alliance, in: Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol 27, No. 3, 2004, pp. 335-342.
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