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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Human condition. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998 (OCoLC)1123220265 |
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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; Margaret Canovan |
| ISBN: | 0226025993 9780226025995 0226025985 9780226025988 |
| OCLC Number: | 38885897 |
| Description: | xx, 349 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | I. The human condition. Vita activa and the human condition ; The term vita activa ; Eternity versus immortality -- II. The public and the private realm. 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 -- III. Labor. "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 -- IV. Work. 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 -- V. Action. 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 -- VI. The Vita Activa and the modern age. 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 ; introduction by Margaret Canovan. |
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Abstract:
Considering humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable, this text addresses diminishing human agency and political freedom - the paradox that as human powers increase through technology and inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions.
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