What is Politics?

Fragments of Hannah Arendt's posthumous works compiled by Ursula Ludz.

In Hannah Arendt's estate in Washington, Ursula Ludz found several previously unpublished texts and documents from unfinished projects. She compiled this material, written between the 1950s and 1959, and organized it chronologically into an annotated text. The result is these posthumous fragments, collected in *What is Politics? *.

In this work, Arendt discusses political debate independently and in an original way, without pigeonholing her discourse into right-wing or left-wing categories. Despite the calamitous experiences modern man has had and continues to have with the political object, and the general prejudice against politics, the author defends the idea that its true meaning is freedom.

In What is Politics?, we find an in-depth discussion on the subject, as well as an introduction to what politics originally is and what fundamental conditions of human existence politics has to do with.

An essential book for researchers, philosophers, and students of the Social Sciences, What is Politics? also includes an annotated bibliography by Hannah Arendt.