Arendt on Action

Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958) is a remarkably prophetic book. At its heart is an analysis of the relationship between labour, work and action, set against a time of rapid technological change. Arendt worried about the power of computers, believed in the capacity of people to reinvent themselves through politics and despaired of the influence of Thomas Hobbes. Was she right? Recommended version to purchase: Going Deeper: James Miller in the LRB on Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt, Eichman in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil In Our Time on Hannah Arendt Matthew Beard for the Guardian, ‘With Robots, is a life without work one we’d want to live?’ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Arendt on Action is an episode from Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS.

This episode is 44:18 long.

This episode was published on May 15, 2020.

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