%0 Journal Article
%T Arendt¡¯s anti
%A Nicholas H. Smith
%J European Journal of Social Theory
%@ 1461-7137
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1368431017746326
%X The aim of this article is to situate Arendt¡¯s account of labour as a critical response to humanisms of labour, or put otherwise, to situate it as an anti-humanism of labour. It compares Arendt¡¯s account of labour with that of the most prominent humanist theorist of labour at the time of the composition of The Human Condition: Georges Friedmann. Arendt¡¯s and Friedmann¡¯s accounts of labour are compared specifically with respect to the range of capacities, social relations, and possibilities of fulfilment at stake in the activity of labour. The comparison provides a previously unexplored context for understanding Arendt¡¯s account of labour and her distinction between labour and work. The relevance of Arendt¡¯s and Friedmann¡¯s theories of labour for the contemporary debate about the meaning of work in an age of automation is also briefly discussed
%K Arendt
%K Friedmann
%K labour
%K work
%K humanism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368431017746326