1. For example, in her work on Augustine, it is clear that Arendt reads ancient and medieval texts through the lens of the German Existenz philosophy in which she was trained. See Hannah Arendt. Love and Saint Augustine, ed. Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
2. Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind, Volume 1 (one-volume edition) (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1977), p. 212.
3. I discuss these first four similarities in greater detail in Allen, The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999), pp. 89-91.
4. Morris Kaplan notes this similarity between Arendt and Foucault in Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire (New York: Routledge, 1997), p. 154.
5. Hannah Arendt, On Violence (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1969), p. 36.