#2 – 20/10/2016: The Human Condition (1): The Public and the Private Realm
[The Human
Condition] is a primer on how to think about and evaluate the res
publica, the public things; how
to protect them once they've been identified; and how to live a
political life.
- Elisabeth
Young-Bruehl, Why Arendt Matters
After gaining an idea of Arendt's
worldview in the last session, we now move on to one of Arendt's more in-depth works, which she described herself as a 'book on political
theories'. In The Human Condition, Arendt rethinks key political concepts – in particular,
labour, work, and action – giving them new definitions from the
vantage point of 'post-totalitarian' society.
As the
first of two sessions on The Human Condition,
our next meeting will focus on Arendt's (re)definition of the
public and the private realm, and thus of political life in relation
to each.
#2
The Human Condition (1): The
Private and the Public Realm – 20/10/2016, 5–7pm
Primary
reading: Hannah
Arendt, 'Vita
Activa and
the Human Condition'
and 'The
Public and the Private Realm',
in The
Human Condition (Chicago:
Chicago University Press,
1998),
pp. 7-12;
38-73. Click here for PDF.
Secondary
reading: Margaret
Canovan,
'Introduction',
in The
Human Condition,
Hannah
Arendt
(Chicago:
Chicago University Press, 1998) Click here for PDF.
Location: LHRI, Seminar Room 1
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