![]() ![]() Following Arendt's thought trains will lead us to take a fresh look at a number of areas, of which the most interesting will perhaps be her theory of action. For the reason why we have spent so long tracing her path from The Origins of Totalitarianism to The Human Condition is that only within that context can one properly understand the later book. Instead, what I shall try to do in this chapter is to situate it within the context of Arendt's work, and in particular to relate it to the thought trains set off by her encounter with totalitarianism. It would be neither appropriate nor feasible to attempt a full-scale commentary on the book here. ![]() ![]() Generally regarded as her magnum opus, it has been the subject of a good deal of analysis and criticism. Although Totalitarianism has been perhaps the most widely read of Hannah Arendt's books (while Eichmann in Jerusalem is certainly the most notorious) it is The Human Condition that has attracted most scholarly attention. ![]()
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