16097 Advanced seminar

SoSe 22: Arendt, The Life of the Mind: Thinking

Wout Cornelissen

Comments

The Life of the Mind was Hannah Arendt’s last book project, which remained unfinished at the time of her death. Conceived by her as a "kind of second volume” to The Human Condition, it offers an investigation into the mental activities of thinking, willing, and judging. In this seminar, we will read and discuss the first of the two parts of which a complete typescript survives: “Thinking.” We will focus on Arendt’s account of the specific character of the thinking activity, its relation to other mental activities, as well as to “the world of appearances.” We will supplement our reading by selected texts from Arendt’s philosophical interlocutors, and pay close attention to her specific way of reading the philosophical tradition. Furthermore, we will reflect on the status and structure of this unfinished text, which is currently being prepared for publication as part of Arendt’s Complete Works: A Critical Edition, a collaborative project based at the Freie Universität Berlin. close

14 Class schedule

Regular appointments

Tue, 2022-04-19 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

Tue, 2022-04-26 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

Tue, 2022-05-03 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

Tue, 2022-05-10 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

Tue, 2022-05-17 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

Tue, 2022-05-24 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

Tue, 2022-05-31 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

Tue, 2022-06-07 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

Tue, 2022-06-14 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

Tue, 2022-06-21 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

Tue, 2022-06-28 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

Tue, 2022-07-05 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

Tue, 2022-07-12 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

Tue, 2022-07-19 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Dr. Wilhelm Wouter Herman Cornelissen

Location:
Habel 30\Vortragsraum (Habelschwerdter Allee 30)

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