At the Table with Arendt: Toward a Self‐Interested Practice of Coalition Discourse

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.