First edition. 8vo. vi, 333, [1] pp. Original quarter navy blue cloth with blue paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (small area of marking to top edge of text block, contents otherwise clean and unmarked; jacket price clipped and rather edge worn with various nicks and closed tears, small portion of loss to lower edge of front panel, still a very good copy overall). Chicago, The University of Chicago Press. Hannah Arendt?s first and most important philosophical work. It is concerned with the connection between forms of human politics and the historical contingency of distinctions between the public (read political) and private spheres. Characterised by a profoundly negative conception of modernity, in Arendt?s�Condition�bureaucratic administration emerges at the expense of active politics, and homogeneity and conformity triumph over plurality and freedom. However, what distinguishes Arendt is her unrelenting search for a new normative ground for human politics and community. Employing a hermeneutic strategy to re-articulate modern values by reconnecting them to the past, Arendt attributed particular poignancy to the metaphor of the�polis, pointing towards a form of civic republicanism premised upon active and participatory citizenship.

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Title: The Human Condition.
Publication Date: 1958
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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