Alienation and Mass Society: An Exploration of The Modern Challenges to the Public Sphere in Hannah Arendt
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Abstract
As one of the most seminal thinkers of the 20th century, Hannah Arendt is often commended for her immense contributions to the discourses surrounding politics, technology, and the ways in which human interaction has been altered by or has itself altered these concepts. Arendt lived during an era in which countless institutions and ways of understanding the world were challenged, adapted, or destroyed, allowing her to have an especially astute understanding of what it meant to live in the “modern” age. Though Arendt does not seem to form a solitary systemic political philosophy throughout her works, there are numerous facets of thought that appear time and time again throughout her larger arguments. Of these consistent concerns, Arendt develops extensive theories on the emergence of what she has deemed “mass society”; this phenomenon, brought forth through decades of progress in technology as well as unexpected political developments, has presented the new and unique concern of what may happen to human beings’ capacity for action in a severely restricted public sphere which is consistently challenged by the transformative and all-absorbing social sphere. Through an exploration of Arendt’s lectures, essays, and capstone works, one may begin to understand the ways in which modernity has challenged the very foundation of political engagement for human beings as well as the resulting consequences for each living being seeking to disclose themselves as an individual. Department: Political Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gaelan Murphy
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.049 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".