The human condition

Author

Hannah Arendt

Call Number

• 301 A681 1998 (CEN)

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Edition

2nd ed.

Publication Information

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998, c1958.

Physical 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 doubt
• 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.