A review by royvdb
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt

2.0

She repeats herself a lot. And some chapters are unnecesairly complex. It's like reading a dissertation where someone tries to sound smarter than they are. If you're not interested in linguistics, it gets only worse. German, French and Latin parts are found throughout the book, without much context. And so many etymological analyses as a statement ahn sich. I wonder how many people gave this a high rating just to look interesting. But on the other hand, that's exactly the audience she writes for I think. Noah Yuval Harrari can have some philosophical intermezzo's in his books that are much more accessible and imo more relevant. I had The Origins of Totalitarianism on my reading list, but this book really is enough Hannah Arendt for me.