Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy - Hardcover

Arendt, Hannah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226025942 ISBN 13: 9780226025940

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1982

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Ronald Beiner is professor of political science at the University of Toronto and the author of Political Judgment, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0226025942
• ISBN 13: 9780226025940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174
• Editor: Beiner Ronald S.