The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt
The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt
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The Human Condition
Second Edition

Author: Hannah Arendt

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Unabridged: 15 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/24/2020

Synopsis

The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations—from totalitarianism to revolution.

A work of striking originality, 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 sixtieth anniversary of its original publication, contains Margaret Canovan's 1998 introduction and a new foreword by Danielle Allen.

A classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely.

About Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was an influential German political theorist and philosopher who came to the United States as a refugee from the Nazis in 1940. She held a number of academic positions at American universities including the University of California, Berkeley; Northwestern University; the University of Chicago; and Princeton University, where she was the first woman appointed to a full professorship. Her works, which deal with issues of power, authority, revolution, thought, and judgment, include The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Between Past and Future, and the incomplete and posthumously published The Life of the Mind.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on December 23, 2020

This is a difficult read, although initially more frightening than it ends up actually being. Arendt's intellect is intimidating to say the least, and the manner in which she launches into a discussion of the human condition in the modern age is altogether unlike anything I've ever seen before -- "u......more

Goodreads review by julieta on October 22, 2016

I took months reading this book, and I loved it. What I keep mostly about reading it is changes. The possibility of change. How the world has changed and what brings about those ch ch changes. The way everything is connected, philosophy, science, spirituality, and the way one change of view brings m......more

Goodreads review by Uroš on December 14, 2022

Velelepna knjiga, koja u filozofskom zanosu budi. Menja. Budi kontemplaciju kao nešto u čemu se čovek potvrđuje kao najistinitije biće. Razmrsivanje nerazmrsivog klupka ljudskog stanja je borba neprestana, a britka misao Hane Arent ponovno namagnetisanje davno razmagnetisanog kompasa. „Ukoliko se isp......more

Goodreads review by Tom on December 02, 2008

If I could recommend one work of philosophy, I'd turn to this magnificent book. And of the many interesting and influential philosophical texts from the 20th Century, this one is the most important of them all as it critically and sympathetically addresses our age, our problems and our fears. In sho......more

Goodreads review by Cosmo on July 16, 2014

This is an odd work. Arendt mischaracterizes a great many thinkers over the course of the book; her "labor," "work," "action," trichotomy seems only intermittently useful; it is unclear whether or not her vision of political action has ever, or could ever, exist. And yet. One of my fellows in our rea......more

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