The Multiplied Mind Perspectival Thinking in Arendt, Koestler, Orwell

• Published in: Historical reflections Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 79 - 102
• Main Author: Jissov, Milen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Waterloo Berghahn Books, Inc 01.03.2023
• Subjects: Arendt, Hannah; Beauty; Bernstein, Richard J; Book publishing; History of ideas; Kant, Immanuel; Koestler, Arthur; Objectivity; Orwell, George; Perspectivism; Totalitarianism; New York; United Kingdom; Oceania

Abstract This article examines a dramatic aporia in modern European intellectual history, involving what it calls “perspectival thinking”—a way of thinking in which an individual assumes and thinks from the perspectives of others. This paradox appears in the work on totalitarianism of Europe's...