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Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy

Hannah Arendt’s last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled The Life of the Mind. Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, Thinking and Willing. Of the third, Judging, only the title page, with epigraphs from Cato and Goethe, was found after her death. As the titles suggest, Arendt conceived of her work as roughly parallel to the three Critiques of Immanuel Kant. In fact, while she began work on The Life of the Mind, Arendt lectured on "Kant’s Political Philosophy," using the Critique of Judgment as her main text. The present volume brings Arendt’s notes for these lectures together with other of her texts on the topic of judging and provides important clues to the likely direction of Arendt’s thinking in this area.

182 pages | 5.30 x 8.40 | © 1982

Philosophy: History and Classic Works, Philosophy of Society

Table of Contents

Preface, by Ronald Beiner
Part One - Texts by Arendt
Postscriptum to Thinking
Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy
Imagination
Part Two - Interpretive Essay
Hannah Arendt on Judging, by Ronald Beiner
Notes

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