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The Human Condition, [1] first published in 1958, is Hannah Arendt's account of how "human activities" should be and have been understood throughout Western history. Arendt is interested in the vita activa (active life) as contrasted with the vita contemplativa (contemplative life) and concerned that the debate over the relative status of the two has blinded us to important insights about the ...
However, Arendt believes the revolutionary spirit of those men was later lost and advocates a "council system" as an appropriate institution to regain it. [4] In an earlier book, The Human Condition, Arendt argued that there were three states of human activity: labor, work, and action. "Labor" is, essentially, a state of subsistence: doing what ...
While Arendt relegates labor and work to the realm of the social, she favors the human condition of action as that which is both existential and aesthetic. [5] Of human actions, Arendt identifies two that she considers essential. These are forgiving past wrong (or unfixing the fixed past) and promising future benefit (or fixing the unfixed future).
Arendt begins the book with an analysis of the rise of antisemitism in Europe and particularly focused on the Dreyfus affair. [10] In particular, Arendt traces the social movement of the Jewry in Europe since their emancipation by the French edict of 1792, their special role in supporting and maintaining the nation-state and their failure to assimilate into the European class society. [14]
Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview And Other Conversations. Melville House Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61219-312-0. —; Fest, Joachim (9 November 1964). "Eichmann war von empörender Dummheit: Hannah Arendt im Gespräch mit Joachim Fest" [Eichmann was outrageously stupid: Hannah Arendt in conversation with Joachim Fest].
In Being and Time, Martin Heidegger reframes Edmund Husserl's phenomenological project into what he terms fundamental ontology.This is based on an observation and analysis of Dasein ("being-there"), human being, investigating the fundamental structure of the Lebenswelt (lifeworld, Husserl's term) underlying all so-called regional ontologies of the special sciences.
Bernauer, James W. (1987a). "The Faith of Hannah Arendt: Amor Mundi and its Critique – Assimilation of Religious Experience". pp. 1–28. Bernstein, Richard J. (2013). Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-7456-6570-2. Birmingham, Peg (2006). Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility.
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