An edition of The Human Condition
(1958)
The human condition
by Hannah Arendt
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Sociology, Technology, Economics, Humanisme, Sociologie, Sociologia, Handlung, Handelen, Anthropologie philosophique, Technologie, Économie politique, Sociale evolutie, Arbeit, Pensée politique et sociale, Philosophie, Addresses, essays, lectures, Philosophy, Politische Philosophie, Politieke filosofie, Political science, Uitbuiting, Kant, immanuel, 1724-1804, Human beings, Life, Critique et interprétation, Homme, Action (Philosophie), Modernité, Philosophie de l'homme, Économique, Philosophical anthropology, Act (philosophy), Vita activa, Politische Zeitfragen, Sozialphilosophie, Statsvetenskap, Sociologi, LäromedelShowing 7 featured editions. View all 42 editions?
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Vita Activa: oder Vom tätigen Leben
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Table of 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.
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