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The Human Condition

By Hannah Arendt

Book information

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Year
2018
ISBN
022658660X, 9780226586601, 022658674X, 9780226586748
DOI
10.7208/chicago/9780226586748.001.0001
LCC
HM211 .A7 2018
Google Books ID
MA4nwQEACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL27371439M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30599321 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
xxxii, 349 pages ;\383
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-01-27 00:29:56

Description

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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