10.322 HANNAH ARENDT

GERMAN POLITICAL THEORIST. ARENDT'S WORK CENTERS ON THE FACT THAT "MEN, NOT MAN, LIVE ON THE EARTH AND INHABIT THE WORLD" ARENDT'S WORK DEALS WITH THE NATURE OF POWER, AND THE SUBJECTS OF POLITICS, AUTHORITY, AND TOTALITARIANISM. MUCH OF HER WORK FOCUSES ON AFFIRMING A CONCEPTION OF FREEDOM WHICH IS SYNONYMOUS WITH COLLECTIVE POLITICAL ACTION AMONG EQUALS. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG, SHE STUDIED PHILOSOPHY WITH MARTIN HEIDEGGER IN 1950, SHE BECAME A NATURALIZED CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES. IN 1959, SHE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN APPOINTED TO A FULL PROFESSORSHIP AT PRINCETON.

10.306 CHANTALL MOUFFE

CHANTAL MOUFFE IS A BELGIAN POLITICAL THEORIST. SHE IS BEST KNOWN AS CO-AUTHOR OF HEGEMONY AND SOCIALIST STRATEGY WITH ERNESTO LACLAU. THEIR THOUGHTS ARE USUALLY DESCRIBED AS POST-MARXISM THEY REJECTED MARXIST ECONOMIC DETERMINISM AND THE NOTION OF CLASS STRUGGLE BEING THE SINGLE CRUCIAL ANTAGONISM IN SOCIETY. INSTEAD THEY URGED FOR RADICAL DEMOCRACY OF AGONISTIC PLURALISM WHERE ALL ANTAGONISMS COULD BE EXPRESSED. IN THEIR OPINION, ‘...THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF SOCIETY WITHOUT ANTAGONISM’; INDEED, WITHOUT THE FORCES THAT ARTICULATE A VISION OF SOCIETY, IT COULD NOT EXIST.