| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 462 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Chinese calligraphy on front and back lining paper written by Tse Kui Yin. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Margaret Canovan I. Human Condition. 1. Vita Activa and the Human Condition. 2. Term Vita Activa. 3. Eternity versus Immortality II. Public and the Private Realm. 4. Man: A Social or a Political Animal. 5. Polis and the Household. 6. Rise of the Social. 7. Public Realm: The Common. 8. Private Realm: Property. 9. Social and the Private. 10. Location of Human Activities III. Labor. 11. "The Labour of Our Body and the Work of Our Hands" 12. Thing Character of the World. 13. Labor and Life. 14. Labor and Fertility. 15. Privacy of Property and Wealth. 16. Instruments of Work and the Division of Labor. 17. A Consumers' Society IV. Work. 18. Durability of the World. 19. Reification. 20. Instrumentality and Animal Laborans. 21. Instrumentality and Homo Faber. 22. Exchange Market. 23. Permanence of the World and the Work of Art V. Action. 24. Disclosure of the Agent in Speech and Action. 25. Web of Relationships and the Enacted Stories. 26. Frailty of Human Affairs. 27. Greek Solution. 28. Power and the Space of Appearance. 29. Homo Faber and the Space of Appearance. 30. Labor Movement. 31. Traditional Substitution of Making for Acting. 32. Process Character of Action. 33. Irreversibility and the Power To Forgive. 34. Unpredictability and the Power of Promise VI. Vita Activa and the Modern Age. 35. World Alienation. 36. Discovery of the Archimedean Point. 37. Universal versus Natural Science. 38. Rise of the Cartesian Doubt. 39. Introspection and the Loss of Common Sense. 40. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
University of Hong Kong -- History.
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University of Hong Kong. |
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History. |
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University of Hong Kong -- Historia. |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- China -- Hong Kong.
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| Chronological Term |
1939 - 1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Matthews, Clifford N., 1921-
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Cheung, Oswald.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dispersal and renewal. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, ©1998 9789622094727 (DLC) 2005365005 (OCoLC)40854545 |
| ISBN |
9789882201026 (electronic book) |
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9882201024 (electronic book) |
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9622094724 |
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9789622094727 |
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