Mind and the Body Politic - Softcover

Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth

9780415901185: Mind and the Body Politic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415901189 ISBN 13: 9780415901185

Publisher: Routledge, 1989

Takes up questions raised by Hannah Arendt about the faculties of the mind and of judgement. This book should be of interest to advanced students and lecturers of feminist theory, philosophy of mind, psychology, political theory.

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About the Author:

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl is Visiting Professor at Haverford College. She is the author of biographies of Hannah Arendt and Anna Freud.

From Publishers Weekly:

Explicitly concerned with the views of great historical figures, these 12 invigorating essays also evince the author's personal intellectual development. In the earliest pieces, Young-Bruehl ( Anna Freud ) focuses on Hannah Arendt, Heidegger and Kant, investigating how their concepts evolved and took unexpected turns. Her own philosophical orientation was soon to experience radical transformation: during the 10 years these works span, Young-Bruehl left the discipline of political philosophy for psychoanalysis. In "Innovation and Political Imagination," she selects the shared metaphor of "femininity" to discuss Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli and Marx ("Each equated form with masculinity and matter with femininity"), paving the way for her subsequent writings, such as "The Education of Women as Philosophers" and "Anna Freud for Feminists." Young-Bruehl's identification of male and female "thinking styles" and her exhortation to women to learn confidence in their own ways of thinking become increasingly persuasive as these essays progress.
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