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Vita Activa and Vita Contemplativa: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Political Thought in The Life of the Mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Jean Yarbrough  and
Peter Stern
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Hannah Arendt's last work, The Life of the Mind, was published in 1978 in two volumes entitled, Thinking and Willing. She planned to write a third volume, “Judging,” and in fact had just begun writing it the day she died. Instead of the final book, “Judging,” Willing, the second volume of The Life of the Mind, contains excerpts from her lectures on Kant's political philosophy and theory of judgment given at the New School for Social Research in 1970. From these excerpts we can get some idea of Arendt's theory of judgment, although we will never know her final thoughts on this subject since she intended to revise and expand the lectures for the “Judging” volume.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Review of Politics , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , July 1981 , pp. 323 - 354
Copyright
Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1981

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References

* Arendt, Hannah, The Life of the Mind, 2 vols. (New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1978)Google Scholar (hereafter cited by volume and page).