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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9780226025988
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0226025985
Label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 370
Publication Date: December 01, 1998
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Studio: University Of Chicago Press
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A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, 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 fortieth anniversary of its original publication, contains an improved and expanded index and a new introduction by noted Arendt scholar Margaret Canovan which incisively analyzes the book's argument and examines its present relevance. A classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the leading social theorists in the United States. Her Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy and Love and Saint Augustine are also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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............ever came close to explaining the workings of man as a political and social animal nearly as well as HA. Since her speculations are grounded in a metaphysics of reality her psychology is sound and policy makers of the right and left both would do well to look at her model before pursuing their dreams of "perfect" worlds.
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The last chapter of the first ed of "The Human Condition" is a thinly-veiled Heideggerian attack on science including capitalized "Being" and one falsehood or false dichotomy or simple fallacy after another. Some of the nonsense is hard to track since the Rockefeller Fnd. did not require the publication to have a bibliography or an adequate index. In the 1st Ed there is no footnote to Heidegger - but his views on "handling" and "instruments" and "disclosure" and "world" are everywhere.
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Arendt begins her opus magnum with a proposal: she states that the launch of Sputnik in 1957 (similar to Vaclav Havel's proposal of the moon landing) has hearkened in a new age of humanity. Following this proposal is one of the most mysterious but rewarding books of the 20th century, in my humble opinion.
I first encountered "The Human Condition" in an undergraduate class regarding the post-modern community. To this day, I still have not completely digested this work. Her objective, in her own ... Read More
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To judge this book by it's cover, I would say that it's red violet. I hope the content covers the spectrum of the human condition. Enjoy your lunch.
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I should forewarn those who are about to the buy this book that you ought to first be well read in ancient Greek Culture: philosophy, political city-state as well as Greek mythology. Arendt uses a lot of Greek terminology which can make it incredibly difficult for the average Liberal Arts student or international student, for that matter, who are unfamiliar with these these terms.
No doubt the concepts she spoke of in the mid-50s are more than applicable to todays society. She was clearly ... Read More
John Gøtze
