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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 (10[1])over (10[1])homo faber. This thinker’s (10[1])last work, The Life of the Mind, (10[1])elaborates on a contrast between ways of life based on labor and reflection, the vita activa (10[1])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 (10[1])evil” in her (10[1])book (10[1])Eichmann (10[1])in Jerusalem? ■END■

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