The Life of the Mind

Name: The Life of the Mind
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Hannah Arendt
ISBN: 9781977387424

Author: Hannah Arendt

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 20 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/23/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, History & Surveys

Synopsis

Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from her previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this work was planned as three volumes that would explore the activities of the mind considered by Arendt to be fundamental. What emerged is a rich, challenging analysis of human mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging.

This final achievement, presented here in a complete one-volume edition, may be seen as a legacy to our own and future generations.

About Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was an influential German political theorist and philosopher who came to the United States as a refugee from the Nazis in 1940. She held a number of academic positions at American universities including the University of California, Berkeley; Northwestern University; the University of Chicago; and Princeton University, where she was the first woman appointed to a full professorship. Her works, which deal with issues of power, authority, revolution, thought, and judgment, include The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Between Past and Future, and the incomplete and posthumously published The Life of the Mind.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beauregard on November 08, 2018

I love an author who assumes the reader really wants to understand. In the end there is no more interesting topic than ‘Being’. There’s been a 2500 year conversation going on among incredibly smart people concerning Being, and Hannah Arendt summarizes and amplifies that conversation and this book al......more

Goodreads review by Mary on July 14, 2007

Fascinating. But so difficult to read at times that I had to read it aloud to myself to keep from getting confused. I am not proud of that.......more

Goodreads review by Sini on July 22, 2021

"Het leven van de geest" is het laatste, deels postume en onvoltooide hoofdwerk van de eigenzinnige en originele denker Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). De eerste delen, "Denken" en "Willen" wist zij nog te voltooien, en zijn ook prachtig. Maar het afsluitende en derde deel "Oordelen" kwam nooit af: daari......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on March 04, 2019

"The wonder that is the starting-point of thinking is neither puzzlement nor surprise nor perplexity; it is an admiring wonder." There is nothing inherent in being human that I relish, seek, ponder and want to understand more than the mind's capacity to wonder. It is from this starting point in my th......more

Goodreads review by Dan on March 12, 2021

This book is a joy to read. Arendt freely and lively moves in the entire philosophical history of thinking and willing, and in doing so engages some of the famous thinkers – all men and all taking themselves too seriously. In the end, she sides with the action and political men, men who founded nati......more