The human condition of Hannah Arendt and the misunderstandings in Byung-Chul Han’s interpretation

Abstract

We present in this paper some fundamental notions of The Human Condition to review Byung-Chul Han’s interpretation. We are going to focus on the problem posed by the South Korean philosopher, that is, the question if the animal laborans resists the analysis of recent social evolutions of the “burnout society”. For us, this procedure shows that Han is wrong, as is also shown by the coherence of Arendt’s text, which she concludes by pointing to the basis of reflection of the “life of the mind”.