Kondycja ludzka

Wprowadzenie

The book grew out of Arendt’s Walgreen Lectures at the University of Chicago in 1956 and appeared there in 1958; its prologue begins with the launch of Sputnik in 1957 as an event that expresses a wish to escape the human condition. Arendt distinguishes three basic activities: labour, which sustains life in endless cycles; work, which produces a lasting world of objects; and action, through which people appear to one another in speech and deeds. She traces how the modern age raised labour to the highest rank and how the “social” displaced the public realm. The German version (1960), revised by Arendt herself, appeared under the title “Vita activa”.

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Nawiązuje do

• Politykaok. 335 p.n.e. · Arystoteles

Krytykuje

• Kapitał1867 · Karol Marks

Podjęte w

• Homo sacer. Suwerenna władza i nagie życie1995 · Giorgio Agamben
• Ty, który na mnie patrzysz, ty, który mnie opowiadasz. Filozofia narracji1997 · Adriana Cavarero

Więcej dzieł: Hannah Arendt

• 1951Korzenie totalitaryzmu
• 1963Eichmann w Jerozolimie
• 1978Życie umysłu