This thinker’s fear of “material invention” is discussed to open Richard Sennett’s book The Craftsman. This thinker’s focus on political action is critiqued in The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han, whose book written “In Praise of Inactivity” is titled for a concept discussed by this thinker. This thinker analyzed the Sputnik launch in a book that posits the victory of animal laborans over homo faber. This thinker’s last work, The Life of the Mind, elaborates on a contrast between ways of life based on labor and reflection, the vita activa and vita contemplativa. A book by this thinker examines a man who claimed to follow Kant’s categorical imperative in court testimony. For 10 points, what author of The Human Condition coined the term “banality of evil” in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem? ■END■
ANSWER: Hannah Arendt [or Johanna Arendt] (The latter book by Byung-Chul Han is Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity.)
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