eprintid: 10148622 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/14/86/22 datestamp: 2022-05-17 11:02:47 lastmod: 2022-05-17 11:04:08 status_changed: 2022-05-17 11:04:08 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Zadeh, Sophie creators_name: Zittoun, Tania creators_name: Markova, Ivana creators_name: Coultas, Clare creators_name: Cabra, Martina title: Dialogue with The Life of the Mind ispublished: inpress divisions: B14 divisions: J81 divisions: B16 divisions: UCL keywords: Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind, thinking, willing, dialogue note: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). abstract: The Life of the Mind is an intriguing unfinished book written by Hannah Arendt, known as a political philosopher, at the very end of her life in 1975. We devote this Special Issue of Culture & Psychology to this work, because we are convinced that it raises interesting and important questions for social and cultural psychology today. In this Introduction to the Special Issue, we first explain why we believe that this book deserves closer attention. Second, we present the context of its publication, and a short biography of Arendt, to show its position in her life. Published posthumously, the book was her last project, yet it is based on some of her lifelong concerns. Third, we summarise Arendt’s ideas about the psyche, and the main three faculties of mind – thinking, willing and judging – with which the book is concerned. We then address three difficulties the book raises for psychologists reading her work. Finally, we explain the context in which we developed this Special Issue, and summarise the topics that will be addressed in the papers assembled here. date: 2022-05-04 date_type: published publisher: SAGE Publications official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1354067X221097121 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1956037 doi: 10.1177/1354067x221097121 lyricists_name: Zadeh, Sophie lyricists_id: SZADE72 actors_name: Kalinowski, Damian actors_id: DKALI47 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Culture & Psychology citation: Zadeh, Sophie; Zittoun, Tania; Markova, Ivana; Coultas, Clare; Cabra, Martina; (2022) Dialogue with The Life of the Mind. Culture & Psychology 10.1177/1354067x221097121 <https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067x221097121>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148622/1/Zadeh_Dialogue%20with%20The%20Life%20of%20the%20Mind_AOP.pdf