- Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin (born
July 17 ,1931 )"Contemporary Authors Online", s.v. "Hanna Fenichel Pitkin." AccessedMarch 5 ,2008 .] is apolitical theorist . She is aProfessor Emerita of Political Science at theUniversity of California, Berkeley . Pitkin was born inBerlin and emigrated to the United States in 1938. She received herPh.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 ofNiccolò 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 theoristJohn Schaar .ee also
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Representation (politics) Notes
External links
* [http://teaching.berkeley.edu/dta.html Distinguished Teaching Award] , UC Berkeley
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