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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 (10[1])the victory of animal laborans over homo faber. (10[1])This thinker’s last work, The Life of the Mind, elaborates (10[1])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 (10[1]-5[1])Eichmann in Jerusalem? (10[1])■END■

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