ABSTRACT

Hannah Arendt places a very great emphasis upon the argument that the human condition is importantly constituted in the human ability to make things. For her, humanity is a constituency which expresses its humanity as a quality in so far as it is able to build its own objective world. The fabrication of objects is at once the expression of human being (it is the product of the conditions of labour and work) and the means by which human being can be constructed and identified as distinctive in the otherwise all too similar mêlée of material and organic things.