![]() From this I draw a number of conclusions concerning Arendt's conception of "society," and extend these insights into two contemporary debates within contemporary theoretical sociology: the need for a differentiated ontology of the social world, and the changing role that novel forms of knowledge play in contemporary society as major sources of social change and order. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad. Understanding Arendt in this way introduces interesting parallels between Arendt's work and both classical and contemporary sociology. Read The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt,Danielle Allen,Margaret Canovan with a free trial. In this article, I argue that Hannah Arendt's distinctions between labor, work, and action, as these are discussed in "The Human Condition" and elsewhere, are best understood as a set of claims about the fundamental structures of human societies. This conventional view has had the effect of distracting attention from many of Arendt's most important insights concerning the constitution of "society" and the significance of the social sciences. The Human Condition, published in 1958, was a wide-ranging and systematic treatment of what Arendt called the vita activa (Latin: active life). ![]() Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as a political theorist who sought to rescue politics from "society," and political theory from the social sciences. ![]()
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