Data di nascita: 1931-07-17
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Berlin, Germany
Luogo di residenza: Berkeley, California, USA
Istruzione: University of California, Berkeley (PhD|1961)
Attività lavorative: political scientist
political theorist
professor
Relazioni: Schaar, John H. (husband)
Organizzazioni: University of California, Berkeley
Premi e riconoscimenti: Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (2003)
Breve biografia: Hanna Fenichel Pitkin was born to Jewish parents in Berlin, Germany. The family fled the Nazis in 1933 for Oslo, Norway, then Prague, Czechoslovakia, before immigrating to the USA in 1938, when Hanna was six years old. She received her PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. After working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she joined the political science faculty at UC Berkeley in 1966. She is best known for her seminal study The Concept of Representation, published in 1967. Her other books include Wittgenstein and Justice (1972, 1984, 1992), and Fortune Is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli (1984, 1999), in addition to numerous scholarly articles and edited volumes. A wide selection of her writings were collected in Hanna Fenichel Pitkin: Politics, Justice, Action (2016). In 1982, she received the Distinguished Teaching Award from UC Berkeley and in 2003, she was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for groundbreaking theoretical work, predominantly on the problem of representation. She is currently professor emerita in Political Science. Prof. Pitkin was married to fellow political theorist John Schaar.

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The Concept of Representation: With a new foreword by di Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

Political theorist Hanna Fenichel Pitkin explores different meanings of the word 'representation' - to represent, linguistic, mental or phenomenological representation (ideas), advocacy (representing self and other with interests), representing unattached interests ('general reason of the whole; rather than 'general will'), etc.

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vegetarian | 2 altre recensioni | Dec 11, 2012 |

The Concept of Representation di Hanna F. Pitkin

An abstract and philosophical discussion of representation, primarily of the political kind although the author occasionally goes far beyond the bounds of politics to illustrate the concept. These excursions sometimes seemed a bit far-fetched to me, but even so this is a very good book. If you want to philosophize about the nature of political representation this book is an indispensable starting point. The book is over 40 years old now but has retained its value and it is also a very useful bibliographical source for early 20th century works in democratic theory.… (altro)

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thcson | 2 altre recensioni | Apr 29, 2012 |

The Concept of Representation di Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

An important examination of the concept in modern political thought.

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Fledgist | 2 altre recensioni | Aug 15, 2007 |

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