hannah arendt the human condition sparknotes

To view the pages linked above you may need to install the Curl RTE or runtime plugin for your web browser. Some annotations but no added emphasis here: The Vita Activa and the Modern Age (again using flagged underlining).A sparsely annotated text of that same chapter here: The Vita Activa and the Modern Age (using '>' and underlined notes.).A version with emphasized text in Chapter Six in bold is here: The Vita Activa and the Modern Age.The plain text of Chapter Six of The Human Condition begins here: The Vita Activa and the Modern Age.Today it can only be hoped that criticism would induce an author such as Arendt to issue a revised second edition in her lifetime - if only in electronic form. Kierkegaard is in the text as well as Augustine (who is there more often.) These observations on quotations, citations, notes and references are based on digital full text search and not the 1958 or 1998 indices. This is remarkable in that the current view of intellectuals is that Heidegger stands as one of the two anti-Cartesians of the previous century - matched only by Wittgenstein. Karl Jaspers does find mention once in the text and once in a footnote but both times in connection with Descartes. Today in hindsight the lack of any reference to Hans Jonas or Karl Löwith is astonishing. The lack of a bibliography allowed the book to appear with no reference to Heidegger whatever (two occur in the 1998 Canova introduction.)Ī comparison with the early writings of Guenter Stern aka Anders is also subverted by both the acknowledgments and the lack of bibliography.

It is my contention that an adequate index would have readily revealed the debt to Heidegger with such entries as Being. Nor did the publisher require this through many subsequent reprints. In comparing the pages, it should be more evident on the second page that the funding organizations did not require the resulting 1958 book to have an adequate index. The first top-level page defines My-Bold or and the affected text passages display as bold. There is only one text file loaded by each of the different top-level pages - as is the case below with the one text file of Chapter 6. The only difference between the pages is the Curl page embedded in the HTM in which top-level Curl imports the same source file of text. Links to four variant presentations of Chapter VI are below.įirst: here are two example pages for the Arendt 1958 Acknowledgments and the 1998 Publisher's Note.Ī page with excerpts with my emphasis added.

Hannah arendt the human condition sparknotes