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| the human condition hannah arendt: The Human Condition Hannah Arendt, 2019-01-11 The renowned political thinker and author of The Origins of Totalitarianism examines the troubling consequences of humanity’s increasing power. A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant today than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind in terms of its ever-expanding capabilities. Her analysis reveals a troubling paradox: that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions. This new edition contains Margaret Canovan’s 1998 introduction and a new foreword by Danielle Allen. A classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition offers a penetrating analysis of a conundrum that has only become more acute in the 21st century. |
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| the human condition hannah arendt: An Analysis of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition Sahar Aurore Saeidnia, Anthony Lang, 2017-07-05 Hannah Arendt’s 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the kind of lives we should lead and the political engagement we should strive for, Arendt’s interpretative skills come to the fore, in a brilliant display of what high-level interpretation can achieve for critical thinking. Good interpretative thinkers are characterised by their ability to clarify meanings, question accepted definitions and posit good, clear definitions that allow their other critical thinking skills to take arguments deeper and further than most. In many ways, The Human Condition is all about definitions. Arendt’s aim is to lay out an argument for political engagement and active participation in society as the highest goals of human life; and to this end she sets about defining a hierarchy of ways of living a “vita activa,” or active life. The book sets about distinguishing between our different activities under the categories of “labor”, “work”, and “action” – each of which Arendt carefully redefines as a different level of active engagement with the world. Following her clear and careful laying out of each word’s meaning, it becomes hard to deny her argument for the life of “action” as the highest human goal. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Excommunication Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, McKenzie Wark, 2013-12-06 Always connect—that is the imperative of today’s media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself—those messages that state: “There will be no more messages”? In this book, Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark turn our usual understanding of media and mediation on its head by arguing that these moments reveal the ways the impossibility of communication is integral to communication itself—instances they call excommunication. In three linked essays, Excommunication pursues this elusive topic by looking at mediation in the face of banishment, exclusion, and heresy, and by contemplating the possibilities of communication with the great beyond. First, Galloway proposes an original theory of mediation based on classical literature and philosophy, using Hermes, Iris, and the Furies to map out three of the most prevalent modes of mediation today—mediation as exchange, as illumination, and as network. Then, Thacker goes boldly beyond Galloway’s classification scheme by examining the concept of excommunication through the secret link between the modern horror genre and medieval mysticism. Charting a trajectory of examples from H. P. Lovecraft to Meister Eckhart, Thacker explores those instances when one communicates or connects with the inaccessible, dubbing such modes of mediation “haunted” or “weird” to underscore their inaccessibility. Finally, Wark evokes the poetics of the infuriated swarm as a queer politics of heresy that deviates from both media theory and the traditional left. He posits a critical theory that celebrates heresy and that is distinct from those that now venerate Saint Paul. Reexamining commonplace definitions of media, mediation, and communication, Excommunication offers a glimpse into the realm of the nonhuman to find a theory of mediation adequate to our present condition. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Between Past and Future Hannah Arendt, Jerome Kohn, 2006-09-26 From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine) Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future. To participate in these exercises is to associate, in action, with one of the most original and fruitful minds of the twentieth century. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Responsibility and Judgment Hannah Arendt, 2009-04-02 Each of the books that Hannah Arendt published in her lifetime was unique, and to this day each continues to provoke fresh thought and interpretations. This was never more true than for Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, where she first used the phrase “the banality of evil.” Her consternation over how a man who was neither a monster nor a demon could nevertheless be an agent of the most extreme evil evoked derision, outrage, and misunderstanding. The firestorm of controversy prompted Arendt to readdress fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, as she struggled to explicate the meaning of Eichmann in Jerusalem. At the heart of this book is a profound ethical investigation, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy”; in it Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral “truths” as standards to judge what we are capable of doing, and she examines anew our ability to distinguish good from evil and right from wrong. We see how Arendt comes to understand that alongside the radical evil she had addressed in earlier analyses of totalitarianism, there exists a more pernicious evil, independent of political ideology, whose execution is limitless when the perpetrator feels no remorse and can forget his acts as soon as they are committed. Responsibility and Judgment is an essential work for understanding Arendt’s conception of morality; it is also an indispensable investigation into some of the most troubling and important issues of our time. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Collision of Wills Roger V. Gould, 2020-07-24 Minor debts, derisive remarks, a fight over a parking space, butting in line—these are the little things that nevertheless account for much of the violence in human society. But why? Roger V. Gould considers this intriguing question in Collision of Wills. He argues that human conflict is more likely to occur in symmetrical relationships—among friends or social equals—than in hierarchical ones, wherein the difference of social rank between the two individuals is already established. This, he maintains, is because violence most often occurs when someone wants to achieve superiority or dominance over someone else, even if there is no substantive reason for doing so. In making the case for this original idea, Gould explores a diverse range of examples, including murders, blood feuds, vendettas, revolutions, and the everyday disagreements that compel people to act violently. The result is an intelligent and provocative work that restores the study of conflict to the center of social inquiry. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: The Human Condition Hannah Arendt, 1998-12-01 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. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: The Human Condition Hannah Arendt, 1958 |
| the human condition hannah arendt: The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt Dana Villa, 2000-11-30 A distinguished team of contributors examines the primary themes of Arendt's multi-faceted thought. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality Danielle Allen, 2014-06-23 “A tour de force.... No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” —Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize Winner of the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize (Nonfiction) Finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Hurston Wright Legacy Award Shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Award A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Selection Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation’s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an “uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America’s cardinal text” (David M. Kennedy). |
| the human condition hannah arendt: The Space of Appearance George Baird, 1995 George Baird probes into the conceptual lineage and current expressions of postmodernism and the critique of postmodern architecture over the past four decades. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Hannah Arendt Samantha Rose Hill, 2021-08-16 Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of twenty-three, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with the rise of the Third Reich. After World War II, Arendt became one of the most prominent—and controversial—public intellectuals of her time, publishing influential works such as The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem. Samantha Rose Hill weaves together new biographical detail, archival documents, poems, and correspondence to reveal a woman whose passion for the life of the mind was nourished by her love of the world. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: On Violence Hannah Arendt, 2014-01 An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power. Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times(Nation). Index. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: On Revolution Hannah Arendt, 1963 |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Crises of the Republic Hannah Arendt, 1972 In this stimulating collection of studies, Dr. Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early '70s as challenges to the American form of government. The book begins with Lying in Politics, a penetrating analysis of the Pentagon Papers that deals with the role of image-making and public relations in politics. Civil Disobedience examines the various opposition movements from the Freedom Riders to the war resisters and the segregationists. Thoughts on Politics and Revolution, cast in the form of an interview, contains a commentary to the author's theses in On Violence. Through the connected essays, Dr. Arendt examines, defines, and clarifies the concerns of the American citizen of the time.--From publisher description. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Hannah Arendt Margaret Canovan, 1992 A reinterpretation of the political thought of Hannah Arendt, strengthening Arendt's claim to be regarded as one of the most significant political thinkers of the twentieth century. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Speaking through the Mask Norma Claire Moruzzi, 2018-09-05 Hannah Arendt was famously resistant to both psychoanalysis and feminism. Nonetheless, psychoanalytic feminist theory can offer a new interpretive strategy for deconstructing her equally famous opposition between the social and the political. Supplementing critical readings of Arendt's most significant texts (including The Human Condition, On Revolution, Rahel Varnhagen, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Eichmann in Jerusalem, and The Life of the Mind) with the insights of contemporary psychoanalytic, feminist, and social theorists, Norma Claire Moruzzi reconstitutes the relationship in Arendt's texts between constructed social identity and political agency. Moruzzi uses Julia Kristeva's writings on abjection to clarify the textual dynamic in Arendt's work that constructs the social as a natural threat; Joan Riviere's and Mary Ann Doane's work on feminine masquerade amplify the theoretical possibilities implicit in Arendt's own discussion of the public, political mask. In a bold interdisciplinary synthesis, Moruzzi develops the social applications of a concept (the mask) Arendt had described as limited to the strictly political realm: a new conception of (political) agency as (social) masquerade, traced through the marginal but emblematic textual figures who themselves enact the politics of social identity. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Amor Mundi J.W. Bernauer, 2012-12-06 The title of our collection is owed to Hannah Arendt herself. Writing to Karl Jaspers on August 6, 1955, she spoke of how she had only just begun to really love the world and expressed her desire to testify to that love in the title of what came to be published as The Human Condition: Out of gratitude, I want to call my book about political theories Arnor Mundi. t In retrospect, it was fitting that amor mundi, love of the world, never became the title of only one of Arendt's studies, for it is the theme which permeates all of her thought. The purpose of this volume's a- ticles is to pay a critical tribute to this theme by exploring its meaning, the cultural and intellectual sources from which it derives, as well as its resources for conte- porary thought and action. We are privileged to include as part of the collection two previously unpu- lished lectures by Arendt as well as a rarely noticed essay which she wrote in 1964. Taken together, they engrave the central features of her vision of amor mundi. Arendt presented Labor, Work, Action on November 10, 1964, at a conference Christianity and Economic Man:Moral Decisions in an Affluent Society, which 2 was held at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Hannah Arendt Julia Kristeva, 2001-01-01 Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt's work: her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space, and life. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Hannah Arendt and Political Theory Steve Buckler, 2011 Explores Arendt's understanding of method: of what political theory is, its purposes and limits, and how it is best undertaken. It shows that her unusual approach - which has led some to believe she fails to offer a consistent method - reflects a definite conception of and approach to political theory. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Hannah Arendt Patrick Hayden, 2014-09-11 Hannah Arendt is one of the most prominent thinkers of modern times, whose profound influence extends across philosophy, politics, law, history, international relations, sociology, and literature. Presenting new and powerful ways to think about human freedom and responsibility, Arendt's work has provoked intense debate and controversy. 'Hannah Arendt: Key Concepts' explores the central ideas of Arendt's thought, such as freedom, action, power, judgement, evil, forgiveness and the social. Bringing together an international team of contributors, the essays provide lucid accounts of Arendt's fundamental themes and their ethical and political implications. The specific concepts Arendt deployed to make sense of the human condition, the phenomena of political violence, terror and totalitarianism, and the prospects of sustaining a shared public world are all examined. 'Hannah Arendt: Key Concepts' consolidates the disparate strands of Arendt's thought to provide an accessible and essential guide for anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this leading intellectual figure. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: On Institutional Analysis Emile Durkheim, 2013-04-01 Ranging from Durkheim's original lecture in sociology to an excerpt from the work incomplete at his death, these selections illuminate his multiple approaches to the crucial concept of social solidarity and the study of institutions as diverse as the law, morality, and the family. Durkheim's focus on social solidarity convinced him that sociology must investigate the way that individual behavior itself is the product of social forces. As these writings make clear, Durkheim pursued his powerful model of sociology through many fields, eventually synthesizing both materialist and idealist viewpoints into his functionalist model of society. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: An Analysis of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition Sahar Aurore Saeidnia, Anthony Lang, 2017-07-05 Hannah Arendt’s 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the kind of lives we should lead and the political engagement we should strive for, Arendt’s interpretative skills come to the fore, in a brilliant display of what high-level interpretation can achieve for critical thinking. Good interpretative thinkers are characterised by their ability to clarify meanings, question accepted definitions and posit good, clear definitions that allow their other critical thinking skills to take arguments deeper and further than most. In many ways, The Human Condition is all about definitions. Arendt’s aim is to lay out an argument for political engagement and active participation in society as the highest goals of human life; and to this end she sets about defining a hierarchy of ways of living a “vita activa,” or active life. The book sets about distinguishing between our different activities under the categories of “labor”, “work”, and “action” – each of which Arendt carefully redefines as a different level of active engagement with the world. Following her clear and careful laying out of each word’s meaning, it becomes hard to deny her argument for the life of “action” as the highest human goal. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Arendt and America Richard H. King, 2015-10-20 German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906–75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she wrote her best-known and most influential works, such as The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and On Revolution. Yet, despite the fact that a substantial portion of her oeuvre was written in America, not Europe, no one has directly considered the influence of America on her thought—until now. In Arendt and America, historian Richard H. King argues that while all of Arendt’s work was haunted by her experience of totalitarianism, it was only in her adopted homeland that she was able to formulate the idea of the modern republic as an alternative to totalitarian rule. Situating Arendt within the context of U.S. intellectual, political, and social history, King reveals how Arendt developed a fascination with the political thought of the Founding Fathers. King also re-creates her intellectual exchanges with American friends and colleagues, such as Dwight Macdonald and Mary McCarthy, and shows how her lively correspondence with sociologist David Riesman helped her understand modern American culture and society. In the last section of Arendt and America, King sets out the context in which the Eichmann controversy took place and follows the debate about “the banality of evil” that has continued ever since. As King shows, Arendt’s work, regardless of focus, was shaped by postwar American thought, culture, and politics, including the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War. For Arendt, the United States was much more than a refuge from Nazi Germany; it was a stimulus to rethink the political, ethical, and historical traditions of human culture. This authoritative combination of intellectual history and biography offers a unique approach for thinking about the influence of America on Arendt’s ideas and also the effect of her ideas on American thought. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy Hannah Arendt, 2014-12-10 Hannah Arendt's last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled The Life of the Mind. Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, Thinking and Willing. Of the third, Judging, only the title page, with epigraphs from Cato and Goethe, was found after her death. As the titles suggest, Arendt conceived of her work as roughly parallel to the three Critiques of Immanuel Kant. In fact, while she began work on The Life of the Mind, Arendt lectured on Kant's Political Philosophy, using the Critique of Judgment as her main text. The present volume brings Arendt's notes for these lectures together with other of her texts on the topic of judging and provides important clues to the likely direction of Arendt's thinking in this area. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Department and Discipline Andrew Abbott, 2017-05-19 In this detailed history of the Chicago School of Sociology, Andrew Abbott investigates central topics in the emergence of modern scholarship, paying special attention to schools of science and how such schools reproduce themselves over time. What are the preconditions from which schools arise? Do they exist as rigid rules or as flexible structures? How do they emerge from the day-to-day activities of academic life such as editing journals and writing papers? Abbott analyzes the shifts in social scientific inquiry and discloses the intellectual rivalry and faculty politics that characterized different stages of the Chicago School. Along the way, he traces the rich history of the discipline's main journal, the American Journal of Sociology. Embedded in this analysis of the school and its practices is a broader theoretical argument, which Abbott uses to redefine social objects as a sequence of interconnected events rather than as fixed entities. Abbott's theories grow directly out of the Chicago School's insistence that social life be located in time and place, a tradition that has been at the heart of the school since its founding one hundred years ago. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt Michael G. Gottsegen, 1994-01-01 It explicates Arendt's major works - The Human Condition, Between Past and Future, On Revolution, The Life of the Mind, and Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy - and explores her contributions to democratic theory and to contemporary postmodern and neo-Kantian political philosophy. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question Kathryn T. Gines, 2014-03-28 A systemic analysis of anti-Black racism in the work of political philosopher Hannah Arendt. While acknowledging Hannah Arendt’s keen philosophical and political insights, Kathryn T. Gines claims that there are some problematic assertions and oversights regarding Arendt’s treatment of the “Negro question.”Gines focuses on Arendt’s reaction to the desegregation of Little Rock schools, to laws making mixed marriages illegal, and to the growing civil rights movement in the south. Reading them alongside Arendt’s writings on revolution, the human condition, violence, and responses to the Eichmann war crimes trial, Gines provides a systematic analysis of anti-black racism in Arendt’s work. “Hannah Arendt: political progressive and committed anti-racist theorist? Think again. As Kathryn Gines makes inescapably clear, for Arendt the “Negro” was the problem, whether in the form of savage “primitives” inseparable from Heart-of-Darkness Africa, social climbers trying to get their kids into white schools, or unqualified black university students dragging down academic standards. [Gines’s] boldly revisionist text reassesses the German thinker’s categories and frameworks.” —Charles W. Mills, Northwestern University “Takes on a major thinker, Hannah Arendt, on an important issue—race and racism—and challenges her on specific points while raising philosophical and methodological shortcomings.” —Richard King, Nottingham University “Gines carefully moves through Arendt scholarship and Arendt’s texts to argue persuasively that explicit discussions of the “Negro question” point up the limitations of her thinking.” —Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University “Gines has delivered an intellectually challenging book, that presents one of the most important figures in Western philosophy of the 2nd half of the 20th century in a different and, perhaps, somewhat less favorable perspective.” —Philosophia “Offers a wealth of research that will be valuable to scholars and graduate students interested in how racial bias operates in Arendt’s major works. Gines’s writing style is lucid and to the point, and her engagement with secondary sources is comprehensive.” —Hypatia |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Hannah Arendt Jon Nixon, 2020-01-01 This book gathers some of Hannah Arendt’s core themes and focuses them on the question, ‘What is education for?’ For Arendt, as for Aristotle, education is the means whereby we achieve personal autonomy through the exercise of independent judgement, attain adulthood through the recognition of others as equal but different, gain a sense of citizenship through the assumption of our civic rights and responsibilities, and realize our full potential as sentient beings with the capacity for human ‘flourishing’ and ‘happiness’ (eudaimonia). In order to appreciate the pivotal role that education plays in Arendt’s analysis of the human condition, we have to understand the emphasis she placed on ‘thoughtfulness’, as the measure of our humanity and on ‘thoughtlessness’, as the measure of our inhumanity. Education sustains and develops the human capacity: to think together (phronesis), to think for oneself (what Arendt called ‘the two-in-one’ of thinking), and to think from the point of view of others (what she termed ‘representative thinking’). From the developing constellation of ideas embedded in her vast and varied body of work, the author infers a notion of education as a necessary preparation for personal fulfillment, social engagement, and civic participation. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: The Attack of the Blob Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, 2000-12 One of the most brilliant political theorists of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt intended her work to liberate and empower, to restore our capacity for concerted political action, to convince us that the power to improve our flawed arrangements is in our hands. At the same time, Arendt developed a metaphor of the social as an alien, all-consuming monster appearing as if from outer space to gobble up human freedom; she blamed it - not us - for our public paralysis and depoliticization. How can we understand her vision of the social that seems to conflict with her most important teaching? The Attack of the Blob is an imaginative and elegantly written study in which Hanna Pitkin seeks to resolve this paradox by tracing Arendt's notion of the social from her earliest writings to The Human Condition and beyond. Interpreting each work in its historical and personal context, Pitkin develops an answer that considers language and rhetoric, psychology and gender, authority, abstraction, and even the nature of political theory itself. |
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| the human condition hannah arendt: Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Human Dignity John Douglas Macready, 2017-12-20 Professor John Douglas Macready offers a post-foundational account of human dignity by way of a reconstructive reading of Hannah Arendt. He argues that Arendt’s experience of political violence and genocide in the twentieth century, as well as her experience as a stateless person, led her to rethink human dignity as an intersubjective event of political experience. By tracing the contours of Arendt’s thoughts on human dignity, Professor Macready offers convincing evidence that Arendt was engaged in retrieving the political experience that gave rise to the concept of human dignity in order to move beyond the traditional accounts of human dignity that relied principally on the status and stature of human beings. This allowed Arendt to retrofit the concept for a new political landscape and reconceive human dignity in terms of stance—how human beings stand in relationship to one another. Professor Macready elucidates Arendt’s latent political ontology as a resource for developing strictly political account of human dignity hat he calls conditional dignity—the view that human dignity is dependent on political action, namely, the preservation and expression of dignity by the person, and/or the recognition by the political community. He argues that it is precisely this “right” to have a place in the world—the right to belong to a political community and never to be reduced to the status of stateless animality—that indicates the political meaning of human dignity in Arendt’s political philosophy. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt Peter Baehr, Philip Walsh, 2017 The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt offers a unique collection of essays on one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers. The companion encompasses Arendt's most salient arguments and major works - The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution and The Life of the Mind. The volume also examines Arendt's intellectual relationships with Max Weber, Karl Mannheim and other key social scientists. Although written principally for students new to Arendt's work, The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt also engages the most avid Arendt scholar. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt, 2006-09-22 The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative—an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt Ken Krimstein, 2018-09-25 Winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir Best Graphic Novels of the Year-Forbes Jewish Book Award Finalist Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt, the most prominent philosopher of the twentieth century. One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is best known for her landmark 1951 book on openness in political life, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which, with its powerful and timely lessons for today, has become newly relevant. She led an extraordinary life. This was a woman who endured Nazi persecution firsthand, survived harrowing escapes from country to country in Europe, and befriended such luminaries as Walter Benjamin and Mary McCarthy, in a world inhabited by everyone from Marc Chagall and Marlene Dietrich to Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. A woman who finally had to give up her unique genius for philosophy, and her love of a very compromised man - the philosopher and Nazi-sympathizer Martin Heidegger - for what she called love of the world. Compassionate and enlightening, playful and page-turning, New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt is a strikingly illustrated portrait of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and irrefutably courageous woman whose intelligence and virulent truth telling led her to breathtaking insights into the human condition, and whose experience continues to shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Hannah Arendt Melvyn A. Hill, 1979 |
| the human condition hannah arendt: On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and Other Essays John Stuart Mill, 2015 Collects four of the philosopher's essays on issues central to liberal democratic regimes. --Publisher. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Red Flag Over Hong Kong Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, 1996 Such is the dire prophecy of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, David Newman, and Alvin Rabushka, whose Red Flag over Hong Kong casts a cold eye on the future prospects of the world's best example of the free-market economy, working as textbooks say it should. Applying to that unknown future a dynamic model of decision making that rests on the collection of data from a wide range of expert observers, the authors boldly seek to quantify human behavior and so derive a precise and reliable early forecast of Hong Kong's destiny at the hands of its communist masters. |
| the human condition hannah arendt: Political Theory and Praxis Terence Ball, 1977-11-21 Political Theory and Praxis was first published in 1977. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Nine distinguished contributors—philosophers and political scientists at universities and colleges in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia—write essays for this volume in political philosophy. The book is dedicated to the memory of Hannah Arendt, the writer and philosopher who died in 1975. The contributors discuss various aspects of the concepts of theory and practice and their interrelationship. All of the essays were written expressly for this volume. In an introduction, Professor Ball, the volume editor, notes that the essays reflect the diversity of conceptions of theory, of practice, and of their conceptual and practical interrelations, and that the contributors explore various ways and byways of approaching the age-old questions of theory and its relation to practice. Part I: Origins On the History of 'Theory' and 'Praxis', Nicholas Lobkowicz; Creatures of a Day: Thought and Action in Thucydides,J. Peter Euben; Plato and Aristotle: The Unity Versus the Autonomy of Theory and Practice. Terence Ball. Part II: Developments Kant on Theory and Practice, Carl Raschke; Theory and Practice in Hegel and Marx: An Unfinished Dialogue,Peter Fuss; The Unity of Theory and Practice: The Science of Marx and Nietzsche, Edward Andrew. Part II: Dilemmas and New Directions Hannah Arendt: The Ambiguities of Theory and Practice, Richard J. Bernstein; Rebels, Beginners, and Buffoons: Politics as Action, Raymond L. Nichols; How People Change Themselves: The Relationship between Critical Theory and Its Audience, Brian Fay |
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The Human Condition Hannah Arendt,1998-12-01 A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when …
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I. The Human Condition 1. Vita Activa and the Human Condition 2. The Te rm Vita Activa 3. Eternity versus Immortality II. The Public and the Private Realm 4. Man: A Social or a Political …
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On “givenness” see Peg Birmingham, Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), chap. 3. 12David …
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, Arendt finds that the tragedy reproduces the human condition, because it is able to imitate human actions (Arendt 1998 p. 187). The specific content as well as the general meaning of …
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Hannah Arendt Everything Hannah Arendt writes about, politics, technologies, philosophy, human condition…etc. Everything goes back to her fascination about human plurality. The quote …
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The Human Condition Hannah Arendt,1998-12-01 A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when …
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Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, philosophy of friendship, action, modernity, materialism, political theory, Aristotelian friendship, respect, The Human Condition With friends men are more able both to …
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Miss Arendt's book is an attempt to describe, and to philosophize upon, one main aspect of "the human condition"-the vita activa, to which modern culture has ascribed the supreme value …
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the Human Condition Check more about The Human Condition Summary Hannah Arendt delves into the concept of labor meticulously to illustrate its pivotal role in the human condition. Labor …
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JUDGING HUMAN ACTION: ARENDT'S APPROPRIATION OF KANT ROBERT J. DOSTAL \V ITHIN the current discussion of political theory one of the most prominent voices remains that …
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ABSTRACT: Hannah Arendt focused on the connection and distinction between Labor, Work and Action in "Human Condition". This article is based on the philosophical situation to explore the …
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The writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt contain a strikingly similar characterization of the labor necessary to maintain or reproduce human life. In both The …
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Disclosure and Responsibility in The Human Condition 4 Arendt sees multiplicity rather than identity – in Dana Villa’s words, ‘a self whose lack of appearance deprives it of both unity and …
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chapters of The Human Condition. The perplexing character of these terms will be nothing new to any reader of Arendt's book, or of the body of commentary that has grown up around it. On the …
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Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition, first published in 1958. They are attrib-uted to "Isak Dinesen," the British and American nom de plume of the Danish writer known as Karen Blixen …
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The tturman Condition. HANNAH ARENDT. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. 332 pp. $4.75. ... The third activity, action, was for the Greeks (and Arendt as well) the proper human …
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sense of plurality in The Human Condition, defi ning it clearly and program-matically as “the fact that men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world.”9 Simply put, Arendt prioritizes …
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This human predicament defines – for Arendt – the vulnerability and fragility of the human condition. But against the unpredictability of human action she affirms the power of promise – …
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104 Hannah Arendt and the Search for a New Political Philosophy condition of human existence. She nowhere clearly specifies the kind of relationship she intends to establish between the …
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The human condition / by Hannah Arendt; introduction by Margaret Canovan. — 2nd ed. p. cm. Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1958. ... Human Condition as "a …
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Hannah Arendt er en af de politiske tænkere, der tilhører en anti-natio-nalistisk, anti-totalitær og moderne republikansk tradition fra det 20. år- ... Både The Human Condition og The Life of the …
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The human condition / by Hannah Arendt; introduction by Margaret Canovan. — 2nd ed. p. cm. Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1958. ... Human Condition as "a …
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4 Sources for Arendt's views in this regard are The Human Condition (Chicago 1956), pp. 22-79; The Origins of Totalitarianism (Cleveland and New York, 1958), pp. 1 1-89 and 123-184. The …
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to travel along the course of Arendt's reflections and to point the way to "Judging." Hannah Arendt announced that her task in The Human Condition was nothing less than "to think what we are …
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ARENDT, HANNAH. The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1958. vi k 332 pp. $4.75. In this book Miss Arendt sets out to examine the "most elementary articulations of …
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Jovanovich, 1978); Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958). 3 The Life of the Mind was set up as a trilogy, dealing with thinking, willing, and judging. …
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The human condition hannah arendt To think in crisis times: that is the heart of Arendt’s work and life, and of her magnum opus, The Human Condition, published in 1958. Those times in …
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In thnlakng about the issues of women and work I turned to Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition to see how a major political philosopher of our time, a woman greatly AUTHOR'S …
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to be set beside The Human Condition: its true origin is Eichmann in Jerusalem. Arendt gives us reason for associating the two books and the circum-stances in which Eichmann in Jerusalem …
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The penetrating philosophical and political writings of Hannah Arendt has offered human-kind provocative and insightful analysis on political action, moral behavior, and human ...
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In Chapter VI: The Vita Activa and the Modern Age of The Human Condition , Hannah Arendt claims that the development of tools which could augment vision in the early 17 th century …
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fundamental human experience. In accordance with this latter approach, reminders abound in the The Human Condition of "the original meaning of politics" or of the "lost" distinction between …
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The Self in the Realms Ontology: A Critical View of Hannah Arendt's Conception of the Human Condition Ronny Miron, Bar llan University, Israel Abstract: The widely accepted appmach in …
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reviewed The Human Condition for the journal Encounter in 1959, and contacted Arendt by telephone to communicate his admiration.4 In 1971, Arendt dedicated her essay, “Thinking …
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167, 173.) Although unity is necessary, Arendt insists in The Human Condition that unity must be based on a plurality of unique thinkers. (Arendt, 1958, 175-6; 1965, 227.) However, if "acting in …
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Maurizio Passerin D’Entre`ves, The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt Animal laborans is one of Hannah Arendt’s timeless contributions to the vocabulary of political theory. Introduced in …
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received a philosophy of history instead,"1 noted Hannah Arendt in The Human 53. Condition. Her ambition in this book was purportedly nothing less than to rethink the concept of politics, root …
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I conclude that an Arendt-inspired ecological politics stresses the interdependence of human values and an all-encompassing natural order. I. PRODUCTIVISM IN GREEN POLITICAL …
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1 Amor Mundi as Capability to Transcend: Hannah Arendt’s Conception of the Human Dr. Zhangmei Tang University of Exeter Thank you for reading and reflecting on my draft paper! …
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see Arendt to Morin, August 2, 1957 (in both collections). 2“The News of the Week in Review,” New York Times, October 6, 1957, sec. 4, 1; quoted in Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition …
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the general problem of philosophy to a mere anthropology. Against this, Arendt’s decen-tring of the human condition vis-à-vis the world remains a fundamentally humanist position: her …
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3Jurgen Habermas, "Hannah Arendt's Communications Concept of Power," Social Research, 44, 1 (Spring, 1977). 4Herbert Marcuse, Reason and Revolution (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), ...
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of Life in Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition Sara Ferreiro Lago 1 Introduction ... 6 See Arendt, H., e Human Condition, Chicago, e University of Chicago Press, 1958, p. 7. 24 e …
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16 Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (first published 1958, University of Chicago Press, 1998) 5. 17 Ibid. 18 Dana Villa, Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt …
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dialogue between Arendt and Adelbert Reif, who asks if the student protest move-ment is "a historically positive process" and receives the reply: "I don't know what you mean by 'positive.' …
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exemplary validity in discourses of human dignity. e early reception of Arendt s thought often focused on her 1958 book, e Human Condition , after some in uential interpretations of her …
