This text identi es work, labor, and action as the key forms of activity, with political action being the highest because of its freedom.
This book argues that the automation of labor turns "apparatuses we once handled freely" into "shells...as...belong to the body of the turtle." It dates the beginning of "world alienation" to the research of Galileo, because his discovery of universal scienti c laws caused people to view themselves from Ka ka's "Archimedean point." This book critiques Karl Marx by arguing that his "communistic  ction" is inherently present in liberal democracy, because the expropriation of the religious establishment already channeled the "life process" from the private to the public. It delineates man as sovereign homo faber from man as unfree animal laborans, but argues that both possess the quality of instrumentality, and thus fall short of the conception of man as zoon politikon (ZOH-oh po-LIT-ik-on) in ancient Athens. This text identi es work, labor, and action as the key forms of activity, with political action being the highest because of its freedom. For 10 points, name this book that reassesses the relationship between the vita activa and vita contemplativa, written by Hannah Arendt.
This book argues that the automation of labor turns "apparatuses we once handled freely" into "shells...as...belong to the body of the turtle.
The Human Condition