The human condition
By: Hannah Arendt
Series: Doubleday Anchor books -- A182
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Sociology; Economics; Technology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vita activa and the human condition; title: The term vita activa; title: Eternity versus immortality; title: Man : a social or a political animal; title: The polis and the household; title: The rise of the social; title: The public realm : the common; title: The private realm : property; title: The social and the private; title: The location of human activities; title: "The labour of our body and the work of our hands"; title: The thing-character of the world; title: Labor and life; title: Labor and fertility; title: The privacy of property and wealth; title: The instruments of work and the division of labor; title: A consumers' society; title: The durability of the world; title: Reification; title: Instrumentality and animal laborans; title: Instrumentality and homo faber; title: The exchange market; title: The permanence of the world and the work of art; title: The disclosure of the agent in speech and action; title: The web of relationships and the enacted stories; title: The frailty of human affairs; title: The Greek solution; title: Power and the space of appearance; title: Homo faber and the space of appearance; title: The labor movement; title: The traditional substitution of making for acting; title: The process character of action; title: Irreversibility and the power to forgive; title: Unpredictability and the power of promise; title: World alienation; title: The discovery of the Archimedean point; title: Universal versus natural science; title: The rise of the Cartesian doubt; title: Introspection and the loss of common sense; title: Thought and the modern world view; title: The reversal of contemplation and action; title: The reversal within the vita activa and the victory of homo faber; title: The defeat of homo faber and the principle of happiness; title: Life as the highest good; title: The victory of the animal laborans.