Research Catalog

Title

The life of the mind / Hannah Arendt.

Author

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Publication

• New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [1981]
• ©1978

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Details

Description

xiv, 238, 283 pages (2 volume in one); 20 cm.

Series Statement

A Harvest/HBJ book

Subjects

• Informational works
• Will
• Thought and thinking
• Philosophy
• Liberty

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Note

• Originally published in two separate volumes with sub-titles: Thinking, and Willing.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• One, Thinking -- Two, Willing.
• One, Thinking: The world's phenomenal nature -- (true) being and (mere) appearance : the two-world theory -- The reversal of the metaphysical hierarch : the value of the surface -- Body and soul; soul and mind -- Appearance and semblance -- The thinking ego and the self : Kant -- Reality and the thinking ego : the Cartesian doubt and the sesus communis -- Science and common sense; Kant's distinction between intellect and reason; truth and meaning -- Invisibility and withdrawal -- the intramural warfare between thought and common sense -- Thinking and doing : the spectator -- Language and metaphor -- Metaphor and the ineffable -- The pre-philosophic assumptions of Greek philosophy -- Plato's answer and its echoes -- The Roman answer -- The answer of Socrates -- The two in one -- The gap between past and future: the nunc stans -- Postscriptum.
• Two, Willing: Time and mental activities -- The will and the modern age -- The main objections to the Will in post-medieval philosophy -- The problem of the new -- The clash between thinking and willing : the tonality of mental activities -- Hegel's solution : the philosophy of history -- The faculty of choice : proairesis, the forerunner of the Will -- The Apostle Paul and the impotence of the Will -- Epictetus and the omnipotence of the Will -- Augustine, the first philosopher of the Will -- Thomas Aquinas and the primacy of intellect -- Duns Scotus and the primacy of the Will -- German Idealism and the "rainbow-bridge of concepts" -- Nietzsche's repudiation of the Will -- Heidegger's Will-not-to-will -- The abyss of freedom and the novus ordo seclorum.

Call Number

B29 2981

ISBN

• 9780156519922 (paperback)
• 0156519925 (paperback)

LCCN

80025403

OCLC

965130376

Author

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Title

The life of the mind / Hannah Arendt.

Publisher

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [1981]

Copyright Date

©1978

Edition

One-volume edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

A Harvest/HBJ book

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR B29 2981