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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN: | 0226025993 9780226025995 0226025985 9780226025988 |
| OCLC Number: | 38885897 |
| Description: | xx, 349 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Vita activa and the human condition -- The term vita activa -- Eternity versus immortality -- Man : a social or a political animal -- The polis and the household -- The rise of the social -- The public realm : the common -- The private realm : property -- The social and the private -- The location of human activities -- "The labour of our body and the work of our hands" -- The thing-character of the world -- Labor and life -- Labor and fertility -- The privacy of property and wealth -- The instruments of work and the division of labor -- A consumers' society -- The durability of the world -- Reification -- Instrumentality and animal laborans -- Instrumentality and homo faber -- The exchange market -- The permanence of the world and the work of art -- The disclosure of the agent in speech and action -- The web of relationships and the enacted stories -- The frailty of human affairs -- The Greek solution -- Power and the space of appearance -- Homo faber and the space of appearance -- The labor movement -- The traditional substitution of making for acting -- The process character of action -- Irreversibility and the power to forgive -- Unpredictability and the power of promise -- World alienation -- The discovery of the Archimedean point -- Universal versus natural science -- The rise of the Cartesian eoubt -- Introspection and the loss of common sense -- Thought and the modern world view -- The reversal of contemplation and action -- The reversal within the vita activa and the victory of homo faber -- The defeat of homo faber and the principle of happiness -- Life as the highest good -- The victory of the animal laborans. |
| Responsibility: | by Hannah Arendt. |
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