The following articles (move backwards) are originally made for students who take Yanase's graduate course in which Arendt's work Vita Activa oder Vom tatigen Leben/ The Human Condition is explored and discussed. The course uses the Japanese translation as the common textbook with occasional reference to the German text and the English text. Yanase introduces his own Japanese translation words when necessary in the course.
The German text
The English text
The Japanese translation
A good introduction to Arendt is written by Osam Kawasaki in Japanese.
ONLINE RESOURCES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arendt
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arendt/
http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/arendt.htm
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt
http://www.bard.edu/arendtcollection/
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ハンナ・アーレント
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Condition_%28book%29
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_activa_oder_vom_tatigen_Leben
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/人間の条件
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
Hannah Arendt's biography
BIOGRAPHY
Below is a brief of biography of Hannah Arendt, complied from the information available on the online resources mentioned above. I thank all the contributors and writers of the sites.
1906
Hannah Arendt was born into a family of secular Jewish Germans in the city of Linden (now part of Hanover), and grew up in Königsberg and Berlin.
1924 (18 years old)
At the University of Marburg, she studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger, with whom she embarked on a long, stormy and romantic relationship.
1925 (19 years old)
She moved to Freiburg University where she spent one semester attending the lectures of Edmund Husserl.
1926 (20 years old)
She moved to Heidelberg University and met Karl Jaspers, with whom she established a long-lasting intellectual and personal friendship.
1929 (23 years old)
She completed her dissertation on the concept of love in the thought of Saint Augustine, under Jasper's supervision.
She married Günther Stern, later known as Günther Anders, in 1929 in Berlin (they divorced later).
1933 (27 years old)
She was forced to flee Germany in 1933 as a result of Hitler's rise to power, and after a brief stay in Prague and Geneva she moved moved to Paris where for six years (1933-39) she worked for a number of Jewish refugee organisations.In her Paris days, she was imprisoned in Camp Gurs but was able to escape after a couple of weeks.
1940 (34 years old)
She married the German poet and Marxist philosopher Heinrich Blücher, by then a former Communist Party member.
In 1941 (35 years old)
She escaped with her husband and her mother to the United States
Living in New York, she wrote for the German language newspaper Aufbau and directed research for the Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction.
In 1950 (44 years old)
She became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
During the post-war period she lectured at a number of American universities, including Princeton, Berkeley and Chicago, but was most closely associated with the New School for Social Research, where she was a professor of political philosophy until her death in 1975.
1951 (45 years old)
She published The Origins of Totalitarianism.
1958 (52 years old)
She published The Human Condition in 1958.
In 1959 (53 years old)
She became the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Princeton.
1963 (57 years old)
She published Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil and On Revolution.
In 1970 (64 years old)
Her husband Blücher died.
She gave her seminar on Kant's philosophy of judgement at the New School (published posthumously as Reflections on Kant's Political Philosophy, 1982)
1975 (69 years old)
She died in New York in 1975.
1978
The Life of the Mind was published posthumously.
Below is a brief of biography of Hannah Arendt, complied from the information available on the online resources mentioned above. I thank all the contributors and writers of the sites.
1906
Hannah Arendt was born into a family of secular Jewish Germans in the city of Linden (now part of Hanover), and grew up in Königsberg and Berlin.
1924 (18 years old)
At the University of Marburg, she studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger, with whom she embarked on a long, stormy and romantic relationship.
1925 (19 years old)
She moved to Freiburg University where she spent one semester attending the lectures of Edmund Husserl.
1926 (20 years old)
She moved to Heidelberg University and met Karl Jaspers, with whom she established a long-lasting intellectual and personal friendship.
1929 (23 years old)
She completed her dissertation on the concept of love in the thought of Saint Augustine, under Jasper's supervision.
She married Günther Stern, later known as Günther Anders, in 1929 in Berlin (they divorced later).
1933 (27 years old)
She was forced to flee Germany in 1933 as a result of Hitler's rise to power, and after a brief stay in Prague and Geneva she moved moved to Paris where for six years (1933-39) she worked for a number of Jewish refugee organisations.In her Paris days, she was imprisoned in Camp Gurs but was able to escape after a couple of weeks.
1940 (34 years old)
She married the German poet and Marxist philosopher Heinrich Blücher, by then a former Communist Party member.
In 1941 (35 years old)
She escaped with her husband and her mother to the United States
Living in New York, she wrote for the German language newspaper Aufbau and directed research for the Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction.
In 1950 (44 years old)
She became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
During the post-war period she lectured at a number of American universities, including Princeton, Berkeley and Chicago, but was most closely associated with the New School for Social Research, where she was a professor of political philosophy until her death in 1975.
1951 (45 years old)
She published The Origins of Totalitarianism.
1958 (52 years old)
She published The Human Condition in 1958.
In 1959 (53 years old)
She became the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Princeton.
1963 (57 years old)
She published Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil and On Revolution.
In 1970 (64 years old)
Her husband Blücher died.
She gave her seminar on Kant's philosophy of judgement at the New School (published posthumously as Reflections on Kant's Political Philosophy, 1982)
1975 (69 years old)
She died in New York in 1975.
1978
The Life of the Mind was published posthumously.
Hannah Arendt's major works
MAJOR WORKS
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
A radical criticism of Stalinist Communism and Nazism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemente_und_Ursprunge_totaler_Herrschaft
The German text
The English text
The Japanese translation
The Human Condition (1958)
See below.
Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
Arendt saw in Adolf Eichman, "the architect of the Holocaust", not a monster, but inability to think and judge by himself. "Banality of evil" was what she ironically found in one of the most terrible human disasters.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
The German text
The English text
The Japanese translation
On Revolution (1963)
She regarded the American revolution as a success, the French revolution as a failure. She thought the former was a political, the latter a social revolution. In her view, “revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.” (p. 21) Hence, a revolution should be political, not social. (The meaning of "society" is explored in The Human Condition.)
The German text
The English text
The Japanese translation
The Life of the Mind (1978)
This book should be read together with The Human Condition. Thinking, willing, and judging, or Vita Contemplativa, are important aspects of human life as well as Vita Activa.
The German text
The English text
The Japanese translation currently out of print
The Promise of Politics (2005) / Was ist Politik? (1993)
Arendt thought of politics as a matter of plurality. In her analysis, Western philosophy was mostly about "Man" in the singular form. Therefore, she thought philosophy was unfit for politics which is about men or persons in the plural.
The German text
The English text
The Japanese translation of the English text
Denktagebuch. Bd. 1: 1950-1973. Bd. 2: 1973-1975.
Arendt's thoughts are written down succinctly.
The German text
The Japanese translation
The English translation is not published yet.
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
A radical criticism of Stalinist Communism and Nazism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemente_und_Ursprunge_totaler_Herrschaft
The German text
The English text
The Japanese translation
The Human Condition (1958)
See below.
Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
Arendt saw in Adolf Eichman, "the architect of the Holocaust", not a monster, but inability to think and judge by himself. "Banality of evil" was what she ironically found in one of the most terrible human disasters.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
The German text
The English text
The Japanese translation
On Revolution (1963)
She regarded the American revolution as a success, the French revolution as a failure. She thought the former was a political, the latter a social revolution. In her view, “revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.” (p. 21) Hence, a revolution should be political, not social. (The meaning of "society" is explored in The Human Condition.)
The German text
The English text
The Japanese translation
The Life of the Mind (1978)
This book should be read together with The Human Condition. Thinking, willing, and judging, or Vita Contemplativa, are important aspects of human life as well as Vita Activa.
The German text
The English text
The Japanese translation currently out of print
The Promise of Politics (2005) / Was ist Politik? (1993)
Arendt thought of politics as a matter of plurality. In her analysis, Western philosophy was mostly about "Man" in the singular form. Therefore, she thought philosophy was unfit for politics which is about men or persons in the plural.
The German text
The English text
The Japanese translation of the English text
Denktagebuch. Bd. 1: 1950-1973. Bd. 2: 1973-1975.
Arendt's thoughts are written down succinctly.
The German text
The Japanese translation
The English translation is not published yet.
"The Human Condition" by Hannah Arendt
TITLE
Vita activa oder Vom tätigen Leben
The Human Condition
人間の条件
TABLE OF CONTENT
Einleitende Bemerkungen
Prologue
序章
ErstesKapitel: Die menschliche Bedingtheit
I. The Human Condition
第一章 人間の条件
Zweites Kapitel: Der Raum des Öffentlichen und der Bereich des Privaten
II. The Public and the Private Realm
第二章 公的空間と私的領分
Drittes Kapitel: Die Arbeit
III. Labor
第三章 労働
Viertes Kapitel: Das Herstellen
IV. Work
第四章 制作
Fünftes Kapitel: Das Handeln
V. Action
第五章 活動
Sechstes Kapitel: Die Vita activa und die Neuzeit
VI. The Vita Activa and the Modern Age
第六章 行動的生活と近代
ABSTRACT
The tree important types of Vita Activa (tätigen Leben) or human activities are labor (Arbeit), work (Herstellen) and action (Handeln). Labor (Arbeit) is a struggle for biological survival, whereas work (Herstellen) is producing artifial things. In the modern time, labor was regarded as primary and it subsumed work and turned the latter into a never-ending consuming process. According to Arendt, society in the modern time is considered almost as one entity where private wealth is pursued by labor (and work). Thus we are seeing the disappearance of public realm (der Raum des Öffentlichen). However, it is only in the public realm where human beings feels reality and found themselves among others. Human beings appears in the world through action (Handeln), that is mostly performed by speech (Sprache). Speech, action and the public realm are absolutely necessary for human beings, for one of the most important human conditions is plurality, or the fact that we live together as different beings.
Vita activa oder Vom tätigen Leben
The Human Condition
人間の条件
TABLE OF CONTENT
Einleitende Bemerkungen
Prologue
序章
ErstesKapitel: Die menschliche Bedingtheit
I. The Human Condition
第一章 人間の条件
Zweites Kapitel: Der Raum des Öffentlichen und der Bereich des Privaten
II. The Public and the Private Realm
第二章 公的空間と私的領分
Drittes Kapitel: Die Arbeit
III. Labor
第三章 労働
Viertes Kapitel: Das Herstellen
IV. Work
第四章 制作
Fünftes Kapitel: Das Handeln
V. Action
第五章 活動
Sechstes Kapitel: Die Vita activa und die Neuzeit
VI. The Vita Activa and the Modern Age
第六章 行動的生活と近代
ABSTRACT
The tree important types of Vita Activa (tätigen Leben) or human activities are labor (Arbeit), work (Herstellen) and action (Handeln). Labor (Arbeit) is a struggle for biological survival, whereas work (Herstellen) is producing artifial things. In the modern time, labor was regarded as primary and it subsumed work and turned the latter into a never-ending consuming process. According to Arendt, society in the modern time is considered almost as one entity where private wealth is pursued by labor (and work). Thus we are seeing the disappearance of public realm (der Raum des Öffentlichen). However, it is only in the public realm where human beings feels reality and found themselves among others. Human beings appears in the world through action (Handeln), that is mostly performed by speech (Sprache). Speech, action and the public realm are absolutely necessary for human beings, for one of the most important human conditions is plurality, or the fact that we live together as different beings.
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