Hannah Arendt Bibliography for a Course at the New School The Life of the Mind, 206: Thinking

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.

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The Spirit of Capital: Philosophy Graduate Student Conference on Hegel and Marx at the New School for Social Research

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Call For Papers

Tenth Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference at the New School for Social Research   

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: MOISHE POSTONE

APRIL 28TH -29TH, 2011

55 W 13th St., New York, New York

The New School University

The New School for Social Research

“It is impossible completely to understand Marx’s Capital, and especially its first chapter, without having thoroughly studied and understood the  whole of Hegel’s Logic. Consequently, half a century later none of the  Marxists understood Marx!!” wrote Lenin in 1915. In 1969, Althusser responded, “A century and a half later no one has understood Hegel because it is impossible to understand Hegel without having thoroughly studied and understood Capital.” What are we to make of this challenge today? Are we now ready to understand Hegel through Marx, and Marx through Hegel?

It is high time for a reassessment of the core stakes of the Marx-Hegel debate. What would it mean to think the concepts of capital and spirit together? This conference is a place to explore the internal relations between Hegel and Marx’s philosophical projects. Some possible questions include: how does Hegel’s phenomenology, logic, philosophy of nature, history and right internally contain the elements that Marx will use to decipher the world of property, labor, commodities and capital? Is Capital a logical theory of forms or a theory of history? How does Marx negate and realize Hegel’s project? What is the role of labor in Hegel, and the role of spirit in Marx? Does the development of history show the unfolding of freedom or the unfolding of capital?  This conference echoes the early Frankfurt school tradition, with its project for a critique of the social forms of the present.

Themes
We encourage submissions on a wide range of topics and thinkers: 

Themes	Thinkers
The Philosophy of Right	I.I. Rubin
Substance and Subject in Capital	György Lukács
Hegel’s Logic and Marx’s Grundrisse	Karl Korsch
Property, Alienation, and Class	Ernst Bloch
Form and Content in Hegel and Marx	Walter Benjamin
Concrete and Abstract Labor	Alfred Sohn-Rethel
Master and Slave	Theodore Adorno
Critique, Dialectic and Method	Herbert Marcuse
Time and History	CLR James
Freedom and Necessity	Raya Dunayevskaya
The Value-Form	Guy Debord
Critique of Labor	Alexander Kojeve
Revolution and Negation	Jean Hyppolite
Proletarian Self-Abolition	Frantz Fanon
Materialism and Idealism	Helmut Reichelt
Commodity, Money and Capital	Hans-Georg Backhaus
Capital and Spirit	Gillian Rose

Submissions
Papers ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 words should be submitted in blind review format to s p i r i t o f c a p i t a l @ gmail.com
Include the following in the body of the email:
i. Author’s name
ii. Title of Paper
iii. Institutional affiliation
iv. Contact information (email, phone number, mailing address)
Please omit any self-identifying information within the body of the paper.

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