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Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics: An Arendtian Approach

By (author) Maria Tamboukou

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This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendtâ€™s philosophical approaches to love and agonistic politics. Arendâ€™s interlocutors are four revolutionary women in the long durÃ©e of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe and the USA: the romantic socialist DÃ©sirÃ©e VÃ©ret-Gay, the Marxist Rosa Luxemburg, the anarchist Emma Goldman and the labour activist Rose Pesotta. The bookâ€™s central argument is that Arendtâ€™s philosophical thought can throw light on dangerous liaisons between love, gender and agonistic politics, further making connections with feminist ruminations around love as an existential force in the ephemeral constitution of the female self in modernity. Drawing on extended research with physical, digital and published archival collections, the book responds to the challenges of â€˜the digital turnâ€™ and highlights the importance of memory work, as a way of understanding the lasting effects of the past on the present. As such, Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics will appeal to scholars of sociology and gender studies with interests in research methodsâ€”particularly archival methodsâ€”the work of Arendt, feminist thought and memory studies.