The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt - Chapter I

The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
Chapter I

Our next long read is The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century. She's most famous for her books The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem, where she coined the phrase "the banality of evil".

We're reading her 1958 book, The Human Condition - in which Arendt analyses human life in terms of the essential categories that she identifies within the vita activa - labour, work and action.

For this week we'll read chapter I - with the rest of the book following chapter-by-chapter over the subsequent weeks.

Who are we?
We're a reading group that welcomes all - young, old, completely new to philosophy or well versed, from keen students to those who've never darkened the door of a lecture room. We read both long & short texts - but you don't need to have been coming from the start of our longer reads. You can dive in at any point along the way.

We usually head to the pub to continue the conversation after our meetings.