Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy
by Hannah Arendt, edited by Ronald Beiner
University of Chicago Press, 1982
Cloth: 978-0-226-02594-0 | Paper: 978-0-226-02595-7 | Electronic: 978-0-226-23178-5
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226231785.001.0001
ABOUT THIS BOOKAUTHOR BIOGRAPHYTABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

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