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The Traditional Substitution of Making for Acting 32. Homo Faber and the Space of Appearance 30. The Web of Relationships and the Enacted Stories 26. The Disclosure of the Agent in Speech and Action 25. The Permanence of the World and the Work of Art V. The Instruments of Work and the Division of Labor 17. 'The Labour of Our Body and the Work of Our Hands' 12. A classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely.įoreword by Danielle Allen Introduction by Margaret Canovan Prologue I. 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. 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. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. 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.

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