Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Action and Appearance: An Introduction; 2. Recalling Arendt on Thinking; 3. Politics and Worldliness in the Thought of Hannah Arendt; 4. The Space of Appearance and the Space of Truth; 5. Daimon Appearances and the Heideggerian Influence in Arendt's Account of Political Action; 6. Individuality and Politics: thinking with and beyond Hannah Arendt; 7. The Saving Power of Social Action: Arendt between Weber and Foucault; 8. On Action: The Appearance of the Law; 9. Ethics and the Vocation of Politics; 10. Individual Responsibility and Political Authority: Hannah Arendt at the Intersection of Moral and Political Philosophy; 11. The Miraculous Power of Forgiveness and the Promise; 12. Hannah Arendt's "Comedy": Antisemitism as Synecdoche in The Origins of Totalitarianism; 13. "Never Seek to Tell Thy Love:" Hannah Arendt and the Secret; 14. Arendt's Metamorphic Figurations in "The Jew as Pariah"; Notes; Index.