Hanna F. Pitkin

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

Life

Hanna Pitkin grew up in Berlin. Her father was the Jewish psychoanalyst Otto Fenichel . She and her family emigrated to the USA via Prague and Norway . Arno Waschkuhn describes that Pitkin grew up in a multilingual and multicultural environment. Pitkin received her doctorate from the University of California in 1961 and is considered a student of Sheldon Wolin . In addition to the University of California, she taught at the University of Wisconsin, among others . In 1980 she was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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The Concept of Representation

"In order to understand the concept of representation, it is necessary to present the various normative models in order to subsequently check their reality content. [...] Hanna F. Pitkin pursued this question, her study," The Concept of Representation ", is one of the most important works on the various aspects of political representation to this day and can be described as a standard work on this topic."

- Bettina Hierath

Hanna Pitkin exposes the following three basic normative levels of meaning of political representation :

  • Formalistic representation
  • Authorize
  • Be accountable
  • Standing-for perspective ;
  • Descriptive representation
  • Symbolic representation
  • Acting-For Perspective ;
  • Substantial representation

Other focal points

“Pitkin's interests are broad, in European political theory from antiquity to the present, psychoanalysis and philosophy of language and text analysis. She pioneered the investigation of the role of gender in the history of political ideas. "

- Hubertus Buchstein

Publications

  • The Concept of Representation , Berkeley / Los Angeles 1967.
  • (Ed.): Representation , New York 1969.
  • Wittgenstein and Justice , Berkeley / Los Angeles 1972 (new edition Berkeley et al. 1993 with a new foreword).
  • Fortune is a woman. Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolü Machiavelli , Berkeley / Los Angeles 1984 (new edition Berkeley et al. 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.

literature

  • Hubertus Buchstein: Representation without symbols - The representation theory of the ›Federalist‹ and by Hannah F. Pitkin (PDF; 4.3 MB), in: Gerhard Göhler u. a. (Ed.):, Institution - Power - Representation. What political institutions stand for and how they work. Baden-Baden 1997, 376-432.
  • Hubertus Buchstein: Hanna F. Pitkin, The Concept of Representation, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1967. In: Steffen Kalitz (Ed.): Key works of political science. Wiesbaden 2007, pp. 356-359.
  • Lisa Disch: “Do's and Don'ts”: Hanna Pitkin's The Concept of Representation , o. O., o. J.
  • Suzanne Dovi: Political Representation , o.O., 2006.
  • Bettina Hierath: Representation and equality: new aspects in political science representation research , Opladen 2001, esp. Pp. 53–83.
  • Winfried Thaa : Criticism and re-evaluation of political representation. From an obstacle to a condition of possibility of political freedom. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 49th vol., H. 4/2008, 618–640.
  • Arno Waschkuhn: Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. In: Gisela Riescher (Ed.): Political Theory of the Present in Individual Representations. From Adorno to Young (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 343). Kröner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-520-34301-0 , pp. 382-385.

Web links

See also

Individual references, footnotes

  1. ↑ a b cf. Hubertus Buchstein : Hanna F. Pitkin, The Concept of Representation, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1967. In: Steffen Kalitz (Ed.): Key works of political science. Wiesbaden 2007, pp. 356-359, p. 356
  2. ↑ cf. Arno Waschkuhn: Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. In: Gisela Riescher (ed.): Political theory of the present. In individual representations from Adorno to Young. Stuttgart 2004, pp. 382-385, S, 382.
  3. ↑ Sheldon S. Wolin on princeton.edu (as of May 5, 2015)
  4. ↑ cf. Bettina Hierath: Representation and equality: new aspects in political science representation research , Opladen 2001, esp. Pp. 53-83, here: p. 53.
  5. ↑ Often some researchers want to recognize four strands in Pitkin, cf. for example Susanne Dovi: Political Representation , n.d., 2006. The Pitkin interpretation of Buchein should be followed here, so that representation 1) can be understood as an obligation, 2) as representation and 3) as representation. See: Hubertus Buchstein: Representation without symbols - The representation theory of the ›Federalist‹ and by Hannah F. Pitkin (PDF; 4.3 MB), in: Gerhard Göhler u. a. (Ed.):, Institution - Power - Representation. What political institutions stand for and how they work. Baden-Baden 1997, pp. 376-432, here: p. 412.
  6. ↑ PDF with the article Representation and Democracy: Uneasy Alliance ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.promusica.se
  7. ^ Suzanne Dovi: Political Representation
personal data
SURNAME Pitkin, Hanna F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin