This author distinguished between work, which is artificial and expresses human freedom, and (*) labor, which is bestial and not free.
The prologue of a book by this author describes how, in the wake of Sputnik, newspapers expressed the hope of humanity finally escaping from Earth. Because the upheaval of modernity has made any reliance on customs impossible, this author advocated Kant's notion of reflective judgment that relies on no fixed rules and that is necessary for moral political action. This author distinguished between work, which is artificial and expresses human freedom, and (*) labor, which is bestial and not free. Those two activities are ranked below action, which as an end in itself is equivalent with freedom, and all three are parts of the vita activa. In another book she describes a man who is "neither perverted nor sadistic" but "terribly and terrifyingly normal" at his war crimes trial. For 10 points, name this author of The Human Condition who coined the phrase "banality of evil" in Eichmann in Jerusalem.
The prologue of a book by this author describes how, in the wake of Sputnik, newspapers expressed the hope of humanity finally escaping from Earth.
(Johanna) Hannah Arendt