vi, 332 pages ; 23 cm

Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1958

Includes bibliographical references and index

I. The Human Condition -- 1. Vita Activa and the Human Condition -- 2. The Term Vita Activa -- 3. Eternity versus Immortality -- II. The Public and the Private Realm -- 4. Man: A Social or a Political Animal -- 5. The Polis and the Household -- 6. The Rise of the Social -- 7. The Public Realm: The Common -- 8. The Private Realm: Property -- 9. The Social and the Private -- 10. The Location of Human Activities -- III. Labor -- 11. "The Labour of Our Body and the Work of Our Hands" -- 12. The Thing-Character of the World -- 13. Labor and Life -- 14. Labor and Fertility -- 15. The Privacy of Property and Wealth -- 16. The Instruments of Work and the Division of Labor -- 17. A Consumers' Society -- IV. Work -- 18. The Durability of the World -- 19. Reification -- 20. Instrumentality and Animal Laborans -- 21. Instrumentality and Homo Faber -- 22. The Exchange Market -- 23. The Permanence of the World and the Work of Art -- V. Action -- 24. The Disclosure of the Agent in Speech and Action -- 25. The Web of Relationships and the Enacted Stories -- 26. The Frailty of Human Affairs -- 27. The Greek Solution -- 28. Power and the Space of Appearance -- 29. Homo Faber and the Space of Appearance -- 30. The Labor Movement -- 31. The Traditional Substitution of Making for Acting -- 32. The Process Character of Action -- 33. Irreversibility and the Power To Forgive -- 34. Unpredictability and the Power of Promise -- VI. The Vita Activa and the Modern Age -- 35. World Alienation -- 36. The Discovery of the Archimedean Point -- 37. Universal versus Natural Science -- 38. The Rise of the Cartesian Doubt -- 39. Introspection and the Loss of Common Sense -- 40. Thought and the Modern World View -- 41. The Reversal of Contemplation and Action -- 42. The Reversal within the Vita Activa and the Victory of Homo Faber -- 43. The Defeat of Homo Faber and the Principle of Happiness -- 44. Life as the Highest Good -- 45. The Victory of the Animal Laborans

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