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At the Table with Arendt: Toward a Self-Interested Practice of Coalition Discourse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Abstract

This article draws from Hannah Arendt's theory of “inter-est” to formulate a model of coalition discourse that can coarticulate difference and commonality and approach them as mutually nourishing conditions rather than as polarities. By disrupting the normative fantasies of unified, a priori subjectivity and universal truth, interest-based discourse facilitates political interactions that neither rely on sameness nor reify difference to the exclusion of connection.

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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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