The Human Condition: Second Edition - Softcover

Arendt, Hannah; Canovan, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226025985 ISBN 13: 9780226025988

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"It is hard to name another thinker of the twentieth century more sought after as a guide to the dilemmas of the twenty-first."--Adam Kirsch "New Yorker "

Synopsis:

In this text, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems are identified as 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. This edition contains an expanded index and an introduction that analyzes the text's argument and its present relevance.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0226025985
• ISBN 13: 9780226025988
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 370