Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
- Mary G. Dietz
- David Laitin
- Lisa Wedeen
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin (July 17, 1931 – May 6, 2023) was an American political theorist. She was best known for her seminal study The Concept of Representation, published in 1967.
Pitkin's diverse interests ranged 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.
Biography
Pitkin was born on July 17, 1931.[1] She was a professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Daughter of Otto Fenichel, Pitkin was born in Berlin and emigrated to the United States in 1938; her family had fled Nazi Germany for Oslo and Prague in the interim.[1] She received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from UC Berkeley in 1961.[citation needed] In 1982, she was granted the Distinguished Teaching Award from UC Berkeley.[2]
Pitkin died on May 6, 2023, at the age of 91.[3]
Political representation
In The Concept of Representation Pitkin described four types of representation: formalistic, descriptive, symbolic and substantive.[4]
Books
Pitkin's books were 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, 1999), in addition to numerous articles and edited volumes. In 1998 she published The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of "the Social". A wide selection of her writings is collected and thematized in Hanna Fenichel Pitkin: Politics, Justice, Action (2016).
Awards and legacy
In 2003, she was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science "for her groundbreaking theoretical work, predominantly on the problem of representation".[5] She was married to political theorist John Schaar. Some of her students are noteworthy political scientists such as David Laitin (Stanford University), Dan Avnon (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Lisa Wedeen (University of Chicago), and Mary G. Dietz (Northwestern University).
See also
- Representation (politics)
References
- ^ a b Contemporary Authors Online, s.v. "Hanna Fenichel Pitkin." Accessed March 5, 2008.
- ^ Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley
- ^ "Passing of Renowned Faculty member Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, 1931–2023". Berkeley. May 12, 2023. Retrieved May 29, 2023.
- ^ "Political Representation". plato.stanford. Revised. August 29, 2018 [January 2, 2006].
- ^ Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science Archived August 30, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, official website.
External links
- A Conversation with Hanna Pitkin
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Preceded by | Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science 2003 | Succeeded by |
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- 1995 Robert A. Dahl
- 1996 Juan José Linz
- 1997 Arend Lijphart
- 1998 Alexander L. George
- 1999 Elinor Ostrom
- 2000 Fritz W. Scharpf
- 2001 Brian Barry
- 2002 Sidney Verba
- 2003 Hanna Pitkin
- 2004 Jean Blondel
- 2005 Robert Keohane
- 2006 Robert D. Putnam
- 2007 Theda Skocpol
- 2008 Rein Taagepera
- 2009 Philippe C. Schmitter
- 2010 Adam Przeworski
- 2011 Ronald Inglehart / Pippa Norris
- 2012 Carole Pateman
- 2013 Robert Axelrod
- 2014 David Collier
- 2015 Francis Fukuyama
- 2016 Jon Elster
- 2017 Amartya Sen
- 2018 Jane Mansbridge
- 2019 Margaret Levi
- 2020 Peter J. Katzenstein
- 2021 David D. Laitin
- 2022 Robert E. Goodin
- 2023 Alexander Wendt / Martha Finnemore
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