Mind and the Body Politic
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : August 2025
- Cover : Hardback
- Pages : 214
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Forthcoming - Catalogue No : 98176
- ISBN 13 : 9781041084501
- ISBN 10 : 1041084501
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First published in 1989, Mind and the Body Politic is a collection of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s twelve essays and lectures on political theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, and the theory of biography. It is a must read for students and researchers of political philosophy, psychology, and sociology.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Hannah Arendt’s Storytelling
2. From the Pariah’s Point of View
3. Reading Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind
4. King Solomon Was Very Wise—So What’s His Story?
5. Cosmopolitan History
6. What Are We Doing When We Think?
7. What Thucydides Saw
8. Innovation and Political Imagination
9. The Writing of Biography
10. Psychoanalysis and Biography
11. The Education of Women as Philosophers
12. Anna Freud for Feminists
Postscript
About the Author(s)
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (1946–2011) was a faculty member at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a practising psychoanalyst in Manhattan. She was a member of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and the author of biographies of Hannah Arendt and Anna Freud plus many other books.
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