Intro; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Federations, Councils, and the Origins of Totalitarianism; Federations and Councils; Political Emancipation Through Jewish-Arab Councils; The Idea of Humanity; 3 Democracy and the Political; The Arendtian Public Sphere; Freedom and the Public Sphere in On Revolution; Agonism, Deliberation, and the Place of Athens in Arendt; 4 Philosophy, Politics, and Participatory Democracy in Arendt; Philosophy and Politics in Arendt; The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Legacy; Plato's Models; Philosophy and Politics in the Councils

5 The Actor Does Not Judge: Arendt's Theory of JudgmentThe Problem of Judgment in Arendt; Spectators Outside the Public Realm; Between Phronesis and Judgment; 6 Facing the Banality of Evil: Arendt's Political Response to Eichmann; From Eichmann to Thinking?; Socratic Midwifery and Kantian Judgment; 7 The Social and the Political; The Social and the Political; What Will They Talk About in the Councils?; 8 Arendt and the Council Tradition; The Council Tradition; Arendt's Contribution to the Council Tradition; Representation and the Question of Democracy

9 Arendt and the Current Participatory MomentArendt, Contemporary Political Theory, and Participatory Democracy; Conclusion: A People's Utopia; Bibliography; Index