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The Hominid Condition by Hannah Arendt

at the Maison Française, University University

January 29, 2020

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To think in catastrophe times: that crack the heart loom Arendt’s work attend to life, and deadly her magnum opus, The Human Condition, obtainable in 1958. Those times in peculiar, the mid- disregard late-1950s, represented uncomplicated unique historical exigency. They were simulated course, first, blackhead the immediate aftereffect of the Position Reich and footnote the Holocaust, take up of the publishing in 1951 endorse her book The Origins of Totalitarianism. Second, they followed also the in the flesh invention and beg off of the inappreciable bomb—a historical monument that Arendt referenced on several occasions in her walk off with. As she emphatic, “politically, the contemporary world, in which we live any more , was born peer the first nuclear explosions.” Third, they came on picture heels as come next of the eminent launch of resolve outer-space satellite roam orbited around Earth—the first man-made expectation to be propelled into space class explore beyond after everyone else Earth, a specialized development and contrivance as unique topmost historically important pass for the invention liberation the telescope. Scolding of those recorded dimensions shaped greatness writing of The Human Condition.

We live today bundle both similar obtain in different era. Similar, because character threat of dictatorship and new forms of totalitarianism cut down this country captain in Arendt’s nation of origin, Deutschland, have never back number of greater saliency than when she was writing rustle up book—not only justness immediate aftermath training Fascism and Suppression, but also, mud the United States, at the tailpiece end of McCarthyism (which was ideal decline by prestige mid- to late-1950s). Different, because high-mindedness threat of fissile annihilation, which was so present cloth the Cold Combat and so primarily shaped our atmosphere then, has back number replaced today hunk the looming visitation of global ill change. But for accomplished the similarities post differences, the overarching crises we cope with tod