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Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics

An Arendtian Approach

Maria Tamboukou (University of East London, UK)

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English
Routledge
14 July 2023
This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical approaches to love and agonistic politics. Arend’s interlocutors are four revolutionary women in the long durée of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe and the USA: the romantic socialist Désirée Véret-Gay, the Marxist Rosa Luxemburg, the anarchist Emma Goldman and the labour activist Rose Pesotta. The book’s central argument is that Arendt’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 ‘the digital turn’ 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 methods—particularly archival methods—the work of Arendt, feminist thought and memory studies.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   517g
ISBN:   9781032191638
ISBN 10:   1032191635
Series:   Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Pages:   182
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking Love through Arendtian Eyes Chapter 1: Feeling, Reading, Thinking, Writing Love Chapter 2: Portraits of Moments in BiosHistory Entanglements Chapter 3: Archival Agonism, Resistibility and Memory Work Chapter 4: Amor Mundi, or the Reality of Utopian Love Chapter 5: Epistolary Waves, Politics, Memory and the Force of Love Chapter 6: Nobody Knows what Love Can Do Chapter 7: Even Workers Fall in Love: Eros in the Labour Movement Conclusion: Epistolary Poethics and Agonistic Politics Index

Maria Tamboukou is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of East London, UK, and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2022–2025). She is the author of Gendering the Memory of Work and Women, Education and the Self, and the co-author of The Archive Project.

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

For those who have been reading Maria Tamboukou's books work over the years, this book is a denouement of sorts. For those not yet familiar with the pleasures of reading Tamboukou, a distinctive pleasure awaits. Everything comes together via Tambakou's 'epistolary poethics', which put an Arendtian agonism of love into conversation with the private and political writings of four revolutionary women: Desiree Veret-Gay, Rosa Luxemburg, Emma Goldman and Rose Pesotta. Agonism is also in the archive, with Tamboukou's focus on women whose love letters code private and public. And readers are in the archive with Tamboukou, searching for the shards of revolutionary women's writing, dispersed into the archives of men made more famous, or reading Emma Goldman's papers, aware of their pending move under precarious conditions from the reduced shelter of a neo-liberalizing university to a community center. The pain of loss, thrill of discovery, and responsibility of care are braided together as Tamboukou wondrously guides her readers through the epistolarium, its history, and its politics. A must-read for scholars or fans of women's and labour history, feminism, anarchism, or Hannah Arendt. Bonnie Honig Nancy Duke Lewis Professor, Brown University, USA


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