This philosopher was one of the first to apply the phenomenological method to politics.  This student of Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger rejected the Western political tradition from Plato to Marx, arguing that the apex of human achievement is not thought, but the active life, dividing it into repetitious, but life-sustaining labor, work which creates objects and a human world, and action - especially of the political variety-new activity invol
This philosopher was one of the first to apply the phenomenological method to politics.  This student of Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger rejected the Western political tradition from Plato to Marx, arguing that the apex of human achievement is not thought, but the active life, dividing it into repetitious, but life-sustaining labor, work which creates objects and a human world, and action - especially of the political variety-new activity involving shared enterprises, in The Human Condition.  For 10 points, name this influential philosopher who penned The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem.
This philosopher was one of the first to apply the phenomenological method to politics.  
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