Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, Politics ebook

by Mary Dietz

Political theory, for Mary Dietz, is an existential intervention that holds the promise of drawing us from spectating to acting. Her perceptive interventions or "turning operations" are performed upon a variety of problems and thinkers.

Political theory, for Mary Dietz, is an existential intervention that holds the promise of drawing us from spectating to acting.

andMary G. Dietz is Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota and an associate of the Women's Studies Department and Center for Advanced Feminist Studies there.

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Mary Golden Dietz (born c. 1951) is the John Evans Professor of Political . Dietz, Mary G. (2002). Turning operations : feminism, Arendt and politics. 1951) is the John Evans Professor of Political Theory at Northwestern University. She holds a joint appointment in Northwestern's Department of Political Science and its Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. Perhaps the most fascinating of these aims to open theories of political action constituted around pure speech (Arendt and Habermas) toward a better appreciation of strategy: "purposeful, methodical performance.

Flank Attacks - DietzMary . Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, and Politics. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. Ellen Kennedy and Susan Mendus (eds) Women in Western Political Philosophy (Wheatsheaf Books) Brighton, Sussex, 1987; Gail Tulloch, Mill and Sexual Equality (Harvester Wheatsheaf) Hemel Hempstead, 1989; Andrea Nye, Feminist Theory and the Philosophies of Man (Routledge) New York, London, 1988.

Citizenship with a Feminist Face: The Problem with Maternal Thinking, Political Theory, 13: 19–38. Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, and Politics, New York: Routledge. Context is All: Feminism and Theories of Citizenship, Daedalus, 116: 1–24. Fineman, Martha, 2013.

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Through the re-interpretation of influential thinkers such as Arendt, Weil, Beauvoir and Habermas, Mary G. Dietz weds the concerns of demcratic thought with that of feminist political theory, demonstrating how important feminist theory has become to democratic thinking more generally. Bringing together fifteen years of commentary on critical debates, Turning Operations begins with problems central to feminism and ends with a series of reflections on the "the politics of politics," inviting the reader to think more expansively about the expressly public nature of political life.

Kerry

Arendt would indeed recognize herself in this book. Though Professor Dietz is not offering us a pale reconstruction or simulation of Arendt, an Arendtian spirit pervades and informs each essay. The emphasis on powerful and innovative thought used to tackle difficult problematics and political issues is as much in the mode of Arendt, and Arendtian thinking, as anything can be. As for 'reconstructing' Arendt as a feminist, Dietz is much more concerned with investigating an interpretation of Arendt that presses important political claims upon feminism. This is an activity of great importance and does no disservice to Arendt, philosophy or Professor Dietz's scholarship in general, but enhances all three. This is truly a powerful book of political theory, rare and exceptional.

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I'm not inclined to write these reviews, however . . .
One critic appears to think that, because Arendt did not define herself as a feminist, Dietz's entire project is incoherent. Well, the days of defining the interesting canonical thinkers for feminism based on their self-identification as feminists is (quite mercifully) over. Dietz's book breathes new life into both feminist theory and Arendt interpretation. This is a powerful and deeply critical text, which should be read by everyone who is wondering what happened to feminism after the identity debates.

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Arendt wouldn't recognize herself in this book. Arendt wasn't a feminist. She would had no symphathies with such the movement as presently constituted. Dietz reads Arendt through the lens of gender reinterpretation. As such, she misses, for example, Arendt's critical thought regarding the faculty of action. One wonders whether Dietz even read or cares about Arendt. This book looks like Dietz uses Arendt's name, and badly distorts her views, in order to further a left-wing political agenda.