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colleague, the political scientist Hans Morgenthau, had the following ex–
change, reported in Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's biography ofArendt. Morgen–
thau queried: "What are you? Are you a conservative? Are you a liberal?
Where is your position within contemporary possibilities?" And Arendt re–
sponded: "I don't know. I really don't know and I've never known. And I
suppose I never had any such position .. . And I must say I couldn't care
less. 1 don't think the real questions of this century will get any kind of illumi–
nation by this sort of thing." Arendt was right. Those feminist texts that
proclaim, in effect, "shut up and fight" or "shut
them
up ill order to better
fight" offer illumination into nothing except the workings of dogmatic minds
and ideological projects. Contrastingly, those feminist writers and scholars
who refuse to join the circle, who retain their independence of mind and
thought, in the long run better serve any feminism worth its salt. By that I
mean a feminist position open to debate, committed to democracy, prepared
to pursue politics as the art of the possible.
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THE POLITICS AND HISTORIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
Paul Roazen
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