Introductions
This community has been created to foster the discussion of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition. Anyone may join the community and post to it, although anonymous posting will not be allowed. It is hoped that the members of the community will read the text together and then discuss those ideas in it that strike them most. Ideally, real discussions will form around various passages in the text and the community will become more than the mere stating of opinion and ensuing bickering that plagues many live journal communities of this kind.
Although the readings will proceed at a regular pace in order to keep everyone on the same page, new members are encouraged to begin the text at their leisure and post thoughts on whatever sections of the book they've read. Weekly readings will be both posted in the community itself and available from the user info page. The community will not be using any particular edition of the text, although the moderator is reading from The University of Chicago's second edition, ISBN 0-226-02598-5, with an introduction by Margaret Canovan.
Links to online resources concerning both Hannah Arendt's life and more specifically The Human Condition will be available from the sidebar at the left once I get the chance to put them there. Have some fun, take some notes, and hope to be talking with you all later!
Although the readings will proceed at a regular pace in order to keep everyone on the same page, new members are encouraged to begin the text at their leisure and post thoughts on whatever sections of the book they've read. Weekly readings will be both posted in the community itself and available from the user info page. The community will not be using any particular edition of the text, although the moderator is reading from The University of Chicago's second edition, ISBN 0-226-02598-5, with an introduction by Margaret Canovan.
Links to online resources concerning both Hannah Arendt's life and more specifically The Human Condition will be available from the sidebar at the left once I get the chance to put them there. Have some fun, take some notes, and hope to be talking with you all later!
