La condición humana

This book is a penetrating study of the state of humanity in the contemporary world, viewed from the point of view of the actions of which it is capable. It proposes a consideration of the human condition from the vantage point of our most recent fears and experiences. Hence, what he raises is very simple: nothing more than thinking about what we do. The essay draws a conception of man that is strictly incompatible with totalitarianisms, and which in turn allows the foundations to be laid for a new idea of history in which it depends on men themselves that it appears as a devastating contingency, that is, that in any time we can return to barbarism. At the same time historical analysis and political proposal of a broad philosophical scope, The human condition is not only the key to all of Hannah Arendt's works, but also a basic text to understand where contemporary life is headed