The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social.(Review) (book review)

The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social. By Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 365p. $30.00.

The 1958 film The Blob is not the Ur-narrative of the alien invasion flick, but it may be this genre's most Arendtian offering, an affinity I was surprised to discover when I watched it for the first time in preparing this review. The creature (which takes its proper name only in the credits) streaks to earth like a meteorite, lands in a wood, and hatches, taking as its first victim a ratty old man. Here the drama begins. Whether from ...

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