La condición humana

In this study of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt reflects on the active dimension of human beings, that is, on their ability to intervene in the world through work, work and action. Arendt analyzes both human capacities whose basic purpose is to meet the needs of life and the sublimation of these in another more transcendental, the ability to be free, to consider our condition through our most recent fears and experiences. Arendt offers a lucid and rigorous journey through the history of political ideas, through the revolutions that have marked each era, to dismantle all our certainties. The problems that Arendt identified at the time -the decline in human agency and political freedom, exploitation, our lack of responsibility in assuming the consequences of our actions, the consumer society and mass culture- remain. current today.