Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

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Hanna Fenichel Pitkin is a political theorist. She is a Professor Emerita of Political Science in UC Berkeley. Professor Pitkin received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1961.

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.

Professor Pitkin’s books include The Concept of Representation (1967), Wittgenstein and Justice (1972, 1984, 1992), and Fortune is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli (1984), in addition to numerous articles and edited volumes.

She has just published The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt’s Concept of "the Social".

In 1982, she was granted the Distinguished Teaching Award from UC Berkeley. In 2003, she was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science "for her pathbreaking theoretical work, predominantly on the problem of representation".^[1] She is married to political theorist John Schaar.