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Critically examine Hannah Arendt’s conceptual triad of labour, work and action.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 20 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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In The Human Condition (1958), Hannah Arendt broke the vita activa into three activities, each answering to a basic condition of human existence. The triad is an argument, not a filing system: modernity, she claims, has turned the order upside down. Its power lies in the distinctions, and so do its weaknesses.

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