As I’ve been preparing to teach a new course on Hannah Arendt’s last work The Life of the Mind this week, I’ve found myself thinking about breath.
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Arendt began working on The Life of the Mind in 1968, and intended on writing three volumes, Thinking, Willing, and Judging. She tells Mary McCarthy:
I am not preparing a bomb by any means. Unless you would ca…
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