1st Edition

An Analysis of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition

By Sahar Aurore Saeidnia, Anthony Lang Copyright 2017
110 Pages
by Macat Library

110 Pages
by Macat Library

98 Pages
by Macat Library

Hannah Arendt’s 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the kind of lives we should lead and the political engagement we should strive for, Arendt’s interpretative skills come to the fore, in a brilliant display of what high-level interpretation can achieve for critical thinking. Good interpretative thinkers... Read more

Ways in to the Text 

Who was Hannah Arendt? 

What does The Human Condition Say? 

Why does The Human Condition Matter? 

Section 1: Influences 

Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context 

Module 2: Academic Context 

Module 3: The Problem 

Module 4: The Author's Contribution 

Section 2: Ideas 

Module 5: Main Ideas 

Module 6: Secondary Ideas 

Module 7: Achievement 

Module 8: Place in the Author's Work 

Section 3: Impact 

Module 9: The First Responses 

Module 10: The Evolving Debate 

Module 11: Impact and Influence Today 

Module 12: Where Next? 

Glossary of Terms 

People Mentioned in the Text 

Works Cited

Biography

Dr Anthony Lang is Head of the Schook of International Relations at the University of St Andrews.His work focuses on questions of agency, responsibility and punishment in political theory.

Dr Sahar Aurore Saeidnia is a doctoral researcher at the Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux, of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (EGESS-IRIS).