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 Arendts Storytelling
2. From the Pariahs Point of
View
3. Reading Hannah Arendts The Life of the Mind
4. King Solomon Was Very
WiseSo Whats 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
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.