The Life of the Mind

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1981 - Philosophy - 521 pages
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The author's final work, presented in a one-volume edition, is a rich, challenging analysis of man's mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. Edited by Mary McCarthy; Indices.
 

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The author’s final work, presented in a one-volume edition, is a rich, challenging analysis of man’s mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. Edited by Mary McCarthy; Indices. ** Read full review

THE LIFE OF THE MIND: Vol. I; Thinking. Vol. II; Willing

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This book may sound forbidding, but do not be dissuaded, for it is a majestic work of deep humility and earnestness, and radiant imagination. Since it consists of Arendt's Gifford Lectures (1973-74 ... Read full review

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Contents

One Thinking
5
aWbrid of Appearances
8
Invisibility and withdrawal
69
The intramural warfare between thought and common sense
80
the spectator
92
Language and metaphor
98
Metaphor and the ineffable
110
What Makes UsThink?
125
Time and mental activities 11
11
The Will and the modernage 19
19
The problem of the new 28
28
proairesis
55
The Apostle Paul and the impotence
63
Epictetus and the omnipotence of the Will73
73
Augustine the first philosopher of the Will84
84
Thomas Aquinas and the primacy
113

The prephilosophic assumptions of Greek philosophy
129
Platos answer and its echoes
141
The Roman answer
151
The answer of Socrates
166
The twoinone
179
the nowhere
197
the nunc stans
202
Postscriptum
213
Notes
217
German Idealism and the rainbowbridge
149
Nietzsches repudiation of the Will158
158
Heideggers WillnottowiU
177
The abyss of freedom and the novus ordo
195
Notes 219
219
Editors Postface
241
JUDGING
255
Indexes
273
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The Life of the Mind: Willing
Hannah Arendt
Snippet view - 1978
The Life of the Mind: Willing
Hannah Arendt
Snippet view - 1978
The Life of the Mind: Thinking
Hannah Arendt
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About the author (1981)

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and original political thinkers. A prolific essayist and philosopher throughout her life, she studied philosophy at the University of Heidelberg under Karl Jaspers. She was University Professor of Political Philosophy in the graduate faculty of the New School for Social Research for many years, as well as a Visiting Fellow of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. The Life of the Mind was first published in 1971.

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TitleThe Life of the Mind
A Harvest/HBJ book
A Harvest/HBJ book: Philos
Combined 2 Volumes in 1
Gifford lectures
AuthorHannah Arendt
Editionreprint
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1981
ISBN0156519925, 9780156519922
Length521 pages
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