What is "homo faber"

Homo Faber may refer to:

• Homo faber, a philosophical concept articulated by Hannah Arendt and Max Scheler
• Homo Faber (novel), a novel by Max Frisch

Homo Faber is a novel by Max Frisch, first published in Germany in 1957. The first English edition was published in England in 1959. The novel is written as a first-person narrative. The protagonist, Walter Faber, is a successful engineer traveling throughout Europe and the Americas on behalf of UNESCO. His world view based on logic, probability, and technology is challenged by a series of incredible coincidences as his repressed past and chance occurrences come together to break up his severely rational, technically oriented ideology.