Human Condition by Hannah Arendt

Read the full post at - Human Condition by Hannah Arendt I picked up The Human Condition because I thought Hannah Arendt might have something useful to say about living in the 2020s. You know the feeling or at least seen all the people on the Internets go on about: work is unfulfilling but also necessary, we don’t want it to go away but we also do, and there’s this constant low-level alienation from political life, social life, and even the work we do every day. I figured if anyone could diagnose what’s going on, it would be Arendt. She’s most famous for her work on totalitarianism, which I read in college and found deeply insightful. The Human Condition is one of her largest philosophical works and explores what labor, work, and action mean in a hyper-industrialized society. She wrote it in the post-World War II era—basically the world structure we still live in today. Arendt is also interesting as a more actionable or practical follow-up to Martin Heidegger’s philosophical work.…