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The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt · 1958 · University of Chicago Press

Distinguishes labour, work and action, and defends the public realm as the space where human plurality becomes visible.

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Plurality is the condition of human action because we are all the same, that is, human, in such a way that nobody is ever the same as anyone else who ever lived, lives, or will live.

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