Human
Condition
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 1958 by The University of Chicago
Introduction by Margaret Canovan © 1998 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 1998
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ISBN: 0-226-02599-3 (cloth)
ISBN: 0-226-02598-5 (paper)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Arendt, Hannah.
The human condition / by Hannah Arendt; introduction by Margaret
Canovan. — 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1958.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-226-02599-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 0-226-02598-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Sociology. 2. Economics. 3. Technology. I. Title.
HM211.A7 1998
301—dc21 98-17015
CIP
© The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of
the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of
Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z3 9.48-1992.