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.
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
Biography
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl was a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and biographer. She made invaluable contributions to the field of biography, philosophy, political theory, feminism, psychoanalysis, and social psychology.
