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Hannah Arendt

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SJS: Her last book in Life of the Mind had just been begun when a heart attack we heard about at the Grad Faculty of the New School ended Hannah's life.

I've read Hannah was writing the first page of the Life of the Mind 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.

The Human Condition, well worn over the years, is still with me, close at hand, more relevant every day these days...

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_the_Mind

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.

SJS: 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. She had had a heart attack while lecturing and was hurrying to finish her trilogy on "Life of the Mind". 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, it seemed clear to me, as she was proceeding from the vita activa (active life) to the vita contemplativa (contemplative life) and much more. It was as if. I thought, Einstein was rushing at Princeton University, across the river in 1954, to finish his 'unified field theory' ... Hannah Arendt knew of her mortality, close up at the end.

We, at GreenPolicy360, have great respect for Hannah and her work that goes on as a lasting reflection of her mind's life ....

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