Attack of the Blob Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social

"It is difficult to imagine a hostile critic examining more effectively than Pitkin the flaws in Arendt's concept of the social, for hostility would inhibit the acquisition of the mastery of Arendt's texts that Pitkin displays at every turn. The most damaging difficulty, from Pitkin's point of view, is that in appealing to a mysterious, invisible force that tyrannizes human conduct, Arendt contradicts her central idea that human beings, endowed with the capacity to start afresh, to undertake the unexpected and to perform the unprecedented, can always defy the ideas and institutions that prescribe their conduct and resist the routines that tell them how to behave."Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel is the author of 'Attack of the Blob Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social' with ISBN 9780226669915 and ISBN 0226669912.