The human condition / by Hannah Arendt
1958, First Edition. University of Chicago Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Not price-clipped. Item #431606
Physical description; vi, 332 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Human Condition -- Vita Activa and the Human Condition -- Term Vita Activa -- Eternity versus Immortality -- Public and the Private Realm -- Man : a Social or a Political Animal -- Polis and the Household -- Rise of the Social -- Public Realm : the Common -- Private Realm : Property -- Social and the Private -- Location of Human Activities -- Labor. "Labour of Our Body and the Work of Our Hands" -- Thing-Character of the World -- Labor and Life -- Labor and Fertility -- Privacy of Property and Wealth -- Instruments of Work and the Division of Labor -- Consumers' Society -- Work -- Durability of the World -- Reification -- Instrumentality and Animal Laborans -- Instrumentality and Homo Faber -- Exchange Market -- Permanence of the World and the Work of Art -- Action -- Disclosure of the Agent in Speech and Action -- Web of Relationships and the Enacted Stories -- Frailty of Human Affairs -- Greek Solution -- Power and the Space of Appearance -- Homo Faber and the Space of Appearance -- Labor Movement -- Traditional Substitution of Making for Acting -- Process Character of Action -- Irreversibility and the Power to Forgive -- Unpredictability and the Power of Promise -- VI. Vita Activa and the Modern Age -- World Alienation -- Discovery of the Archimedean Point -- Universal versus Natural Science -- Rise of the Cartesian Doubt -- Introspection and the Loss of Common Sense -- Thought and the Modern World View -- Reversal of Contemplation and Action -- Reversal Within the Vita Activa and the Victory of Homo Faber -- Defeat of Homo Faber and the Principle of Happiness -- Life as the Highest Good -- Victory of the Animal Laborans. Subjects; Arendt, Hannah. Information series Technology. Sociology. Economics. Technology. Human beings Political aspects. Human beings Social aspects. World history. Philosophy, Modern. Social Sciences.
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