ISBN | 9780226586601 |
Call Number | HM211 .A73 2018 |
Author | Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. (4) |
Title | The Human Condition / Hannah Arendt ; with a new foreword by Danielle Allen ; introduction by Margaret Canovan |
Edition | 2nd ed. |
Imprint | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018 |
Physical | xxxii, 349 pages ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-329) and index. |
Content | 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 |
Subject | Sociology. (16) |
| Economics. (12) |
| Technology. (2) |
| Philosophical anthropology. (3) |
| Act (Philosophy). |
Added Entry | Allen, Danielle S., 1971 |
| Canovan, Margaret. (2) |
Holding | LIC |