I stumbled upon Hannah Arendt’s course bibliography from when she taught “The Life of the Mind” at the New School in 1974–1975. The course was listed as 206: Thinking. I wish I had been alive to take it! In the meantime, here are the books she compiled for her students to read and ponder.
BIBLIOGRAPHY* (Compiled by Hannah Arendt for a course she taught at the New School)
Course Title: The Life of the Mind, 206: Thinking
ARISTOTLE Nicomachean Ethics, Liberal Arts Library — On the Soul, McKeon’s edition in Modern Library — Protreptikos, bilingual edition (Greek–German) of Ingemar During, Klostermann, Frankfurt/Main, 1969.
CICERO De Republica edition Loeb Library — Tusculan Disputations edition Loeb Library.
DESCARTES Meditations Cambridge University Press — The Passions of the Soul Cambridge University Press.
HEGEL Phenomenology of the Mind — Philosophy of History Dover Publications — Reason in History Liberal Arts edition.
HEIDEGGER Introduction to Metaphysics, Doubleday, 1961 — Identity and Difference, Harper and Row 1969 — What is called Thinking? Harper and Row 1969 — What is Metaphysics? complete text not available in English, see [unclear notes].
HERAKLITUS in G. S. Kirk & J. E. Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers, Cambridge University Press.
Hans JONAS “The Nobility of Sight” in The Phenomenon of Life, 1966.
Charles KAHN “The Greek Verb ‘to be’” in Foundations of Language, 1966.
KANT Critique of Pure Reason, only Transcendental Dialectic and Transcendental Doctrine of Method, translated by N. K. Smith — Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics, translation N. K. Smith — Dreams of a Spirit Seer, New York 1969.
LEIBNIZ Confessio Philosophi, bilingual edition: Latin & German, Klostermann.
N. LOBKOWICZ Theory and Practice, Notre Dame University Press, 1967.
J. L. MEHTA The Philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Torchbooks.
MERLEAU‑PONTY The Essential Writings of Merleau‑Ponty, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich — The Visible and the Invisible, Evanston 1968 — Signs, Evanston 1964.
NIETZSCHE Gay Science. [Additional titles are obscured by notes.]
PARMENIDES [unclear] — see G. S. Kirk & J. E. Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers — Plato: The Republic (edition Cornford, Books I–VIII), Apology, Seventh Letter, Phaedo, Gorgias.
A. PORTMANN Animal Camouflage, Michigan Press 1959 — Animal Forms and Patterns: A Study of the Appearance of Animals, Schocken Books.
SNELL The Discovery of the Mind (Torchbooks 1970).
Gregory VLASTOS The Philosophy of Socrates, London 1971. [Unclear notes on further entries.]
Erle WEIL Probleme Kantiennes, Paris 1970.
WITTGENSTEIN Tractatus, bilingual edition with introduction of Russell — Philosophical Investigations — On Certainty, London 1961.
N.b.: The bibliography presented here is transcribed from a facsimile of the original.
