Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. CONTENIDO: Introduction: Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics -- Aesthetic Foundations of Democratic Politics in the Work of Hannah Arendt -- The Odor of Judgment: Exemplarity, Propriety, and Politics in the Company of Hannah Arendt -- Propriety and Provocation in Arendt's Political Aesthetic -- Communication and Transformation: Aesthetics and Politics in Kant and Arendt -- "Please Sit Down, but Don't Make Yourself at Home": Arendtian "Visiting" and the Prefigurative Politics of Consciousness-Raising -- Communication, Transformation, and Consciousness-Raising -- Hannah Arendt: Modernity, Alienation, and Critique -- Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of the Public/Private Distinction -- Plurality, Promises, and Public Spaces -- Must Politics Be Violent? Arendt's Utopian Vision -- "The Banality of Evil" Reconsidered -- Evil, Violence, Thinking, Judgment: Working in the Breach of Politics.