Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

Hanna Fenichel Pitkin (born July 17, 1931)"Contemporary Authors Online", s.v. "Hanna Fenichel Pitkin." Accessed March 5, 2008.] is a political theorist. She is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Pitkin was born in Berlin and emigrated to the United States in 1938. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1961. In 1982, she was granted the Distinguished Teaching Award from UC Berkeley.

Pitkin's diverse interests range from the history of European political thought from ancient to modern times, through ordinary language philosophy and textual analysis, to issues of psychoanalysis and gender in political and social theory.

Pitkin's books are "The Concept of Representation" (1967), "Wittgenstein and Justice" (1972, 1984, 1992), and "Fortune Is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli" (1984), in addition to numerous articles and edited volumes. In 1998 she published "The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of "the Social".

In 2003, she was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science "for her groundbreaking theoretical work, predominantly on the problem of representation". [ [http://www.statsvet.uu.se/prize/ Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science] , official website.] She is married to political theorist John Schaar.

ee also

*Representation (politics)

Notes

External links

* [http://teaching.berkeley.edu/dta.html Distinguished Teaching Award] , UC Berkeley


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