What Hannah Arendt can teach us about work in the time of Covid-19

The philosopher’s distinction between work and labour should guide our attempts to build a better society.   

by Lyndsey Stonebridge for The New Statesman

(A photograph of German-American philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt at the German Historical Museum in Berlin on 6 May 2020. Photo By Getty Images)

‘According to the government, we are now supposed to be getting back to work. But what does “work” mean in the time of Covid-19? Amid the debates about how we might return to work, what is being forgotten is that work is a crucial part of what the 20th-century political philosopher Hannah Arendt called the human condition…’

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