| "The Human Condition" as social ontology: Hannah Arendt on society, action and knowledge. | |
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PMID: 21809509 Owner: HMD Status: In-Process |
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Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as a political theorist who sought to rescue politics from "society," and political theory from the social sciences. 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. 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. Understanding Arendt in this way introduces interesting parallels between Arendt's work and both classical and contemporary sociology. 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. |
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Philip Walsh |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: History of the human sciences Volume: 24 ISSN: 0952-6951 ISO Abbreviation: Hist Human Sci Publication Date: 2011 |
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Created Date: 2011-08-02 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 100967737 Medline TA: Hist Human Sci Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 120-37 Citation Subset: Q |
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York Univ., Canada. |
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