...Naomi Morgenstern Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel, The Road , depicts a decidedly masculine subject contemplating a death that is simultaneously imagined as , and as taking place at , the end of the world. As such, the novel invites its dismissal as an extravagantly solipsistic elegy for patriarchy...

... apartment and to the conversation between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy that Ariella Azoulay and Bonnie Honig both refer to in the essays that follow here. Pamela Katz, the film’s screenwriter, tells us of the decision to focus the film on the Eichmann trial and the controversy around Arendt’s Eichmann...

... an intellectual force on film, Margarethe dared me to answer her final sally: “But she’s a thinker . How can we show her doing that?” This insightful and practical question went on to obsess both of us for the next eight years. Hannah Arendt’s good friend, Mary McCarthy, heightened our challenge with her...

... with this “defense of his”? Arendt in the film shows she knows the answer. When talking in an opening scene with Mary McCarthy about her divorce, in which McCarthy’s ex is fighting with her and McCarthy wonders why, Arendt tells her that is how it is: “[U]nder such circumstances it’s only natural that people imagine...

... in Manhattan, where she chats with Mary McCarthy about men and love, love being another category that Arendt relegates to the private sphere. I read this sequence as a sort of argument with Arendt about love being worldless and irrelevant to politics. The film begins with some dark scenes of Eichmann’s...

... McCarthy. Boston: Beacon, 1979. _ _ _ _ _. "The Crisis of the Welfare State and the Exhaustion of Utopian Energies." Jiirgen Habermas on Society and Politics. Ed. Steven Seidman. Boston: Beacon, 1989. 284-99. _ _ _ _ _. "Hannah Arendt's Communications Concept of Power." Social Research 44.1 (1977): 3-24...

... of the World in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road .” 25.2 : 33 – 61 . Nguyen Duy Lap . “ Capitalism and Primal History in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project .” 25.3 : 123 – 43 . Raley Rita . “ Digital Humanities for the Next Five Minutes .” 25.1 : 26 – 45 . Rhody Lisa Marie . “ Working...

...://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/ . McCarthy Anna . “ Reality Television: A Neoliberal Theater of Suffering ”. Social Text 93 ( 2007 ): 17 – 41 . Ouellette Laurie . “ ‘Take Responsibility For Yourself’: Judge Judy and the Neoliberal Citizen...

... it represented. For the publishing house of F. C. and J. Rivington and its associates, she selected some twenty-eight novels by twenty-one novelists for a fifty-volume set ( Toner 172 ; McCarthy, Anna 422–30 ). Laying out eclectic principles of selection in the essay “On the Origin and Progress of Novel...

... and promoted the erasure of difference ( McCarthy 97 ). Pornmimicry casts light on how the sitcom, in particular the family sitcom, is already and always a richly mimetic site. Adapted and reproduced from the radio sitcom ( Amos ’n’ Andy , Father Knows Best , and The Life of Riley ), even the historical...

... Bingen, letters were essential to gaining an understanding of Arendt’s political and private self. There was correspondence with Karl Jaspers (who, by the way, was initially supposed to be a character in my film), with Mary McCarthy (her American friend), and with Heidegger. In the case of Heidegger...

... Feminist Jurisprudence.” Signs 8.4 ( 1983 ): 635 –58. McCarthy, Thomas. “Practical Discourse: On the Relation of Morality to Politics.” Calhoun 51 –72. Meehan, Johanna, ed. Feminists Read Habermas: Gendering the Subject of Discourse. New York: Routledge, 1995 . Negt, Oskar, and Alexander...

.... _ _ _ _ _. The Theory oj Communicative Action I' Reason and the Rationalization oj Society. Trans. Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon, 1984. Haraway, Donna. "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s." Nicholson 190-233. _ _ _ _ _. "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question...

.... New York: Schocken, 1969 . 253 -64. Brown, Wendy. States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity . Princeton: Princeton up, 1995 . Habermas, Jürgen. The Theory of Communicative Action , Vol. 2 . Trans. Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon, 1987 . Hewitt, Andrew. “A Feminine...

... imprisoned in a manor house his entire adult life, as well as the nameless people who work simply by simulating life in an apartment building designed and built for this purpose by the anonymous narrator of Tom McCarthy’s Remainder . In focusing on the daily life of migrants, these novels shed new light...

..., 2000 . 524 -29. McCann, Carole R., and Seung-Kyung Kim, eds. Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives . New York: Routledge, 2003 . 164 -71. McCarthy, Timothy Patrick, and John Campbell McMillan, eds. The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition...

... identifications and disidentifications of the individual with the state.6 Take, for example, the McCarthy hearings. They offer an exemplary depiction of the pressures and contingencies of the U.S. cold war performative upon the narrative...

... relying here on the commentary offered by Warren Montag in his first book on Althusser, Louis Althusser . 5 It can be recalled here that Brecht, who had created his own theater in East Berlin, Das Berliner Ensemble, after leaving the United States under the pressure of the McCarthy prosecutions...

... of Society. Trans. Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon, 1979.95-129. "A Philosophico-Political Profile." Habermas 149-89. Hall, Stuart. "Brave New World." Marxism Today October 1988: 24-29. The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left. London: Verso, 1988. Harvey, David. The Condition...

... in the position of lack—lack of feeling. But, Nelson argues, it is more accurate to see Arendt as rejecting both options: she “neither sacralized pain nor remained indifferent to it.” Together with Mary McCarthy, with whom she shared what Nelson calls “the virtue of heartlessness,” Arendt “constitute[d...