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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 the victory of animal laborans over homo faber. (10[2])This thinker’s last work, (10[1])The Life of the Mind, elaborates on a contrast between ways of life based (10[1])on labor and reflection, the vita activa and vita (10[1])contemplativa. A book by this thinker examines a man who claimed to follow Kant’s (10[1])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■

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