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The Human Condition: Second Edition de Hannah Arendt

The Human Condition: Second Edition

Autor Hannah Arendt Introducere de Margaret Canovan Cuvânt înainte de Danielle Allen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 oct 2018
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, “the theorist of beginnings,” whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations—from totalitarianism to revolution.

A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then—diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions—continue to confront us today. This new edition, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of its original publication, contains Margaret Canovan’s 1998 introduction and a new foreword by Danielle Allen.

A classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226586601
ISBN-10: 022658660X
Pagini: 380
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Ediția:Mărită
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

Hannah Arendt is widely considered one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. The University of Chicago Press also publishes her Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy and Love and Saint Augustine, as well as The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. Margaret Canovan is an English political theorist who has published widely on Arendt. Her books include The People and Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought. Danielle Allen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the author, most recently, of Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
 

Cuprins

Foreword by Danielle Allen
Introduction by Margaret Canovan
Prologue

I.          The Human Condition

1.         Vita Activa and the Human Condition
2.         The Term Vita Activa
3.         Eternity versus Immortality

II.        The Public and the Private Realm

4.         Man: A Social or a Political Animal
5.         The Polis and the Household
6.         The Rise of the Social
7.         The Public Realm: The Common
8.         The Private Realm: Property
9.         The Social and the Private
10.       The Location of Human Activities

III.       Labor

11.       “The Labour of Our Body and the Work of Our Hands”
12.       The Thing-Character of the World
13.       Labor and Life
14.       Labor and Fertility
15.       The Privacy of Property and Wealth
16.       The Instruments of Work and the Division of Labor
17.       A Consumers’ Society

IV.       Work

18.       The Durability of the World
19.       Reification
20.       Instrumentality and Animal Laborans
21.       Instrumentality and Homo Faber
22.       The Exchange Market
23.       The Permanence of the World and the Work of Art

V.        Action

24.       The Disclosure of the Agent in Speech and Action
25.       The Web of Relationships and the Enacted Stories
26.       The Frailty of Human Affairs
27.       The Greek Solution
28.       Power and the Space of Appearance
29.       Homo Faber and the Space of Appearance
30.       The Labor Movement
31.       The Traditional Substitution of Making for Acting
32.       The Process Character of Action
33.       Irreversibility and the Power to Forgive
34.       Unpredictability and the Power of Promise

VI.       The Vita Activa and the Modern Age

35.       World Alienation
36.       The Discovery of the Archimedean Point
37.       Universal versus Natural Science
38.       The Rise of the Cartesian Doubt
39.       Introspection and the Loss of Common Sense
40.       Thought and the Modern World View
41.       The Reversal of Contemplation and Action
42.       The Reversal within the Vita Activa and the Victory of Homo Faber
43.       The Defeat of Homo Faber and the Principle of Happiness
44.       Life as the Highest Good
45.       The Victory of the Animal Laborans

Acknowledgments

Index

 

Recenzii

“The combination of tremendous intellectual power with great common sense makes Arendt’s insights into history and politics seem both amazing and obvious.”

“Arendt’s most important philosophical work.”

“A great work of the mind and the imagination. . . . Arendt has done even more to prise open our oyster minds than she did in The Origins of Totalitarianism.”

Descriere

The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations-from totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable.

The problems Arendt identified then-diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions-continue to confront us today. This new edition, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of its original publication, contains Margaret Canovan's 1998 introduction and a new foreword by Danielle Allen. A classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely.