The Human Condition.
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...Consider, for example, the work of Hannah Arendt, whose oeuvre offers an extreme instance of the modernist impulse to specify action in relation to futurity....
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...Consider, for example, the work of Hannah Arendt, whose oeuvre offers an extreme instance of the modernist impulse to specify action in relation to futurity. The first sentences of her Human Condition (1958) divide human activity into the ideal categories of labor, work, and action, with each corresponding to a fundamental register of human existence....
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...In the history of ideas, a prominent example of primary justice as inherent in our humanity is Hannah Arendt’s (1958) The Human Condition. She wrote her PhD dissertation on the concept of caritas in Augustine, under the philosopher Karl Jaspers (Arendt, 1996 [1929])....
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...In the history of ideas, a prominent example of primary justice as inherent in our humanity is Hannah Arendt’s (1958) The Human Condition....
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...Sticking with this social contract tradition, Arendt has argued about the importance of making and keeping promises (Arendt, 1958: 237)....
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...For Despoina, the infiltration of the movement by certain political ideologies was enough to make her stop participating in the protests....
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...Consequently, the aim of Arendt’s political hermeneutic phenomenology is to ‘save the appearances’ (Borren, 2010: 42) of political events, as they unfold in particular times and spaces (Arendt, 1958: 198), not only through their descriptive analysis, but also, by interpreting their meaning(s)....
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...This faculty of making promises is what sustains the power ‘generated when people gather together and act in concert’ (Arendt, 1958: 244) creating ‘islands of predictability’ and acting as ‘certain guideposts of reliability’ (Arendt, 1958: 244); the only thing is that promises have to be kept....
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...For Douzinas (2010), this revolt brought to the fore what was up to then ‘invisible, unspoken and unspeakable’ (Douzinas, 2010: 276)....
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