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Hannah Arendt

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SJS/GreenPolicy360: Hannah Arendt final book trilogy "Life of the Mind" was a culmination of a lifetime of thought. She was using a lecture series in 1973-74 to flesh out what became her opus and at this point had a heart attack that nearly ended her life. She recovered, continued teaching, lecturing, and at the Graduate Faculty of the New School we heard about Hannah's life ending.

I later read that Hannah was writing the first page of the last book of the trilogy and it was in her typewriter when she passed away suddenly after a night of discussion with friends at her place on the upper West Side of New York.

Her books and her ideas, beginning with The "Human Condition" and well worn over the years, are still with me, close at hand, more relevant than ever these days...

The nature of the missing third part has continued to be a matter of great speculation.[4] During her visiting professorship at the New School in 1974, she presented a graduate level political philosophy class entitled, Philosophy of the Mind. It was during these class lectures that she crystallized her concepts. The class was based on her working draft of Philosophy of the Mind, which would later be edited to become Life of the Mind. Arendt's working draft was distributed to her graduate students. She conceived of a trilogy based on the mental activities of thinking, willing, and judging.

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SJS (a memory: Hannah Arendt's "The Life of the Mind", that she spoke about in her 1974 lectures when GreenPolicy360's siterunner was studying at the Graduate Faculty of the New School in NYC, was incomplete at the time of her death. The second heart attack she had during the course of lectures to finish her trilogy on "Life of the Mind". The first heart attack brought additional pressure. A philosophy of the mind was on her mind more intensively than can be thought of, as her students and observers watched in those last days of her life. From the time she completed "The Human Condition" in 1958, she wanted to complement her classic work with a summation, it seemed clear to me. She was proceeding from her vita contemplativa of the "Human Condition" and much more. It was as if an Einstein was rushing at Princeton University, across the river in 1954, to finish his 'unified field theory' ...

Hannah Arendt knew of her mortality. Death was close up as her heart and mind knew at the end of her life. In a human way, in a way philosopher's know, her art, her work in "Life of the Mind" was bringing her immortality...

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