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The Life of the Mind

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mar 16, 1981 - Philosophy - 540 pages
The author’s final work, presented in a one-volume edition, is a rich, challenging analysis of man’s mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. Edited by Mary McCarthy; Indices.
  

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Review: The Life of the Mind: Volume Two: Willing

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a philosophical history of the will, kind of an expanded version of "what is freedom?". arendt at her most readable. Read full review

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Contents

One Thinking
5
aWbrid of Appearances
8
Invisibility and withdrawal
69
The intramural warfare between thought and common sense
80
the spectator
92
Language and metaphor
98
Metaphor and the ineffable
110
What Makes UsThink?
125
Time and mental activities 11
11
The Will and the modernage 19
19
The problem of the new 28
28
proairesis
55
The Apostle Paul and the impotence
63
Epictetus and the omnipotence of the Will73
73
Augustine the first philosopher of the Will84
84
Thomas Aquinas and the primacy
113

The prephilosophic assumptions of Greek philosophy
129
Platos answer and its echoes
141
The Roman answer
151
The answer of Socrates
166
The twoinone
179
the nowhere
197
the nunc stans
202
Postscriptum
213
Notes
217
German Idealism and the rainbowbridge
149
Nietzsches repudiation of the Will158
158
Heideggers WillnottowiU
177
The abyss of freedom and the novus ordo
195
Notes 219
219
Editors Postface
241
JUDGING
255
Indexes
273
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About the author (1981)

MARY MCCARTHY (1912-1989) was a short-story writer, bestselling novelist, essayist, and critic. She was the author of The Stones of Florence and Birds of America, among other books.

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