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A Politics of Enlarged Mentality: Hannah Arendt, Citizenship Responsibility, and Feminism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2020
Abstract
Drawing from four Arenaaan themes—plurality, the public realm, power, and perspective appreciation—I argue for citizenship as a “politics of enlarged mentality.” This term suggests an alternative conception of citizenship that surpasses the limits of both the liberal and civic republican traditions. Unlike die masculinized liberal ideal of the citizen and contrary to the gendered universality that defines the civic republican traditions, a politics based on enlarged mentality combines context sensitivity with principled judgments.
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- Research Article
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- Hypatia , Volume 12 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Citizenship in Feminism: Identity, Action, and Locale , Fall 1997 , pp. 27 - 53
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- Copyright © 1997 by Hypatia, Inc.
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