
Arendt on Action
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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The Human Condition Moves Labor to Work to Action
Action. Is what man beings do when they tell the story of their lives, when they try and make something of themselves through acting in the world. So it's close to the world of narrative and fiction, because what is constructed through action is always a kind of story. And it exists in t moment, it almost exists out of time. One of the features of human action, for arent, is that it's almost evanescent. You might tell an amazing story when the story exists in the telling, and when the telling is done, it's not clear what does still exist. A well told story is potentially eternal. That is, a story that lasts... can even out
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