If you’ve read one of Hannah Arendt’s works, it’s probably Eichmann in Jerusalemher account of the trial of a high-ranking Nazi official of the same name, and the source of her oft-quoted phrase “the banality of evil.” This book was published in 1963, when Arendt still had more than a dozen productive years left in her life. In fact, when she died suddenly in 1975, she had left on her typewriter the first page of what was to be the third volume of her final work. life of the heart. In the two completed volumes, she investigated the nature of thought and action, and an interest in the relationship between thought and morality was kindled within her. Eichmann trial.
“The Life of the Mind” also appears at the top. syllabusrecently Posted by: Arendt biographer Samantha Rose Hill“206: Thinking,” a class Arendt taught at her university in 1974. new school of social research. Covering a wide range of philosophers, from Aristotle, Cicero, and Plato to Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger (with whom she can claim to be more intimate than anyone else), she is quite thorough about who we think she is. They seem to be offering some research. When thinking about thinking itself.
Arendt clearly modified some of the content of the Gifford Lectures she gave at Aberdeen in 1973-1974, which were themselves part of her “Fundamental Moral Propositions,” “Thought,” and “History of the Will.” ”, which was a condensed version of the contents of “Kant’s Lectures.” Criticism of judgment. ”
Arendt’s teachings in other courses at the New School, such as “Thinking” and “Philosophy of Mind,” shed some light on what was written in the unwritten third volume. life of the heartor at least towards the arc of the entire trilogy. Volumes 1 and 2 of the draft she distributed to graduate students. thought and willingly;The third one was supposed to be like this Examinethe most troublesome mental activity of this set. It would be worth hearing from former New School students from the mid-’70s who still have classroom memories to hear what she had to say on the subject. As for the rest of us, you can at least read all the “Thoughts” and then decide for yourself. You can check the syllabus at the following site. Library of Congress website.
Related content:
An introduction to the life and thought of Hannah Arendt: presented by BBC Radio in our time
Large archive of Hannah Arendt’s papers digitized by the Library of Congress: Read her lectures, draft articles, notes, and correspondence
Take the final exam for Hannah Arendt’s 1961 course On Revolution
A look inside Hannah Arendt’s personal library: Download Marginalia from 90 books (Heidegger, Kant, Marx, and more)
Hannah Arendt explains how totalitarian regimes arise and how they can be prevented
Watch Hannah Arendt’s last interview (1973)
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