Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Usage and References -- 1. Origins: Arendt's Life and Coming to Terms with Totalitarianism -- Biography -- Arendt on Totalitarianism -- 2. Politics as Identity-Disclosing Action -- The Political and the Public -- Labor and Work -- Behavior and the Social -- Explaining the Rise of the Social -- Action, Freedom, and Identity in the Space of Appearances -- A Pickup Basketball Game -- Participatory Democracy -- Conclusion: Recovering Citizenship -- 3. Understanding and Judging the Reality of Evil -- The Reality of Evil -- Thinking -- Judging -- Storytelling -- Conclusion: Are We Being Political Yet? -- 4. Arendt Now -- The Meaning of Democracy -- A Democratic Ethos -- Notes -- References -- For Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.