Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Moment; Kierkegaard; Jasper's Augenblick: The Border Situation; Heidegger's Moments: The Pass, the Ground, the Clearing; The Moment of Vision; The Moment of Appearance from the Ground; The Moment of Clearing; Kafka: The Moment of Judging; Benjamin: The Moment of the Jetztzeit; Arendt's Moment and the Critique of Heidegger; Chapter 3 The Beautiful; Villa and Markell: The Posture of the Political; Karl Jaspers's New Political Geography; The Beautiful in Past, Present, and Future

The Beautiful and the Life of the MindThe Beautiful, Amor Mundi and World; Chapter 4 Judgment; Karl Jasper's Phenomenological Kant; The Beautiful and Arendt's Theory of Judgment; Chapter 5 Spirit; A Heterodox Kant; Imagining the Ineffable and Judgment as Legislating; Imagination, Spirit, and Aesthetic Ideas; Implications; Chapter 6 Res publica; Freedom and the Moral Life of Downtown; Hanna Arendt: Civic Republican, Neo-Roman Republican, or What?; Arendt's Theory of Property; Property and the Recovering the Real World; Examples of Radical Republican Property; Property for Everyone?

Chapter 7 ConversationsHannah Arendt's Aesthetic Politics; Models of Democratic Discourse; Political Liberalism; Deliberative Democracy; Agonistic Democracy; The Public Conversations Project as Arendtian Public Reason; Freedom and the Beautiful: Findings from Participant Observation; Bibliography; Index