The end or the apotheosis of "labor"? Hannah arendts contribution to the question of the good life in times of global superfluity of human labor power
Hypatia 20 (2):135-154 (2005)
| Abstract | : This paper relates Arendt's critique of a labor society to her thoughts on the "good life." I begin with the claim that in the post–mass production era, Western societies, traditionally centered around gainful employment, encounter a decrease in the relevance of labor and can thus no longer rely on it as a resource for individual or social meaning. From Arendt's perspective, however, the current situation allows for the possibility of a transition from a society based on labor to a society centered around activities. I explore Arendt's different types of activities—labor, work, action—with respect to the question of justice between the genders | |||||||||
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