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At the Table with Arendt: Toward a Self-Interested Practice of Coalition Discourse
Article first published online: 9 JAN 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2002.tb00677.x
2002 by Hypatia, Inc.
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ADAMS, K. (2002), At the Table with Arendt: Toward a Self-Interested Practice of Coalition Discourse. Hypatia, 17: 1–33. doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2002.tb00677.x
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- Issue published online: 9 JAN 2009
- Article first published online: 9 JAN 2009
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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.