The human condition /
By: Arendt, Hannah.
Contributor(s): Canovan, Margaret.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xx, 349 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226025993 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226025995; 9780226025995 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226025985 (paper : alk. paper); 9780226025988 (paper : alk. paper).Subject(s): Sociology | Economics | Technology | Human beings![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.