Can the Polis Live Again?
The modern world has withered public space and its virtues
Posted: December 6, 2009 at 3:42 a.m.
In 1958, Hannah Arendt published The Human Condition, her book—part panegyric, part lamentation—on what she called “public space.” What she meant by public space wasn’t just the buildings and gathering places that in a good town square or market piazza encourage people to come together.
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Perspective, Pages 83 on 12/06/2009
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