Hypatia

Adams, Katherine.
At the Table with Arendt: Toward a Self-Interested Practice of Coalition Discourse
Hypatia - Volume 17, Number 1, Winter 2002, pp. 1-33

Indiana University Press

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.