Return To The "active Life" Political

The construction of the public sphere is a hot topic for modern social science, which sends challenges to our real life. As the first political theorist who advanced the public sphere, her original thought impacts the later study deeply. Arendt regards politics as one kind of phenomenon, which highlights the freedom through the equal citizens' mutual demonstration. From this, Arendt thought that politics is one positive life style, it causes person's existing significance and the value. "The appearance space" is the public sphere, from which the equal citizens had demonstrated themselves and others, carrying on policy. Through "the phenomenology" to reveal that politics and the public sphere in the ancient Athens's city-state life in Greece. But with the rising of the social sphere, the bureaucracy inflation, the technical ration beginning, as well as the prevalence of consumerism, individual gradually lost the ability to fall into to the lonely atomization condition, and the totalitarianism origins, so the public sphere declined. Arendt believed that revolutions have the important meaning to revival the public sphere and to restore the human beings' freedom. Revolution can stimulate the enthusiasm of citizens' participation, so that people take an active part in the practice of life to realize their value ,the thought of Arendt's public sphere is brimming with the tradition of the republicanism, In contemporary China, with the market-oriented social transformation, the public sphere has also begun preliminary, but there are still many problems, it has not unfolded the communication between country and society, the cultivation of the civil political culture also appears essentially. The original study by Arendt can provide us inspiration and strength, which transcend time and space. The positive civil political culture advanced by Arendt promote the civil participation, as well as shows loving care for modern people's existing way, from which the political culture of the contemporary China may draw support on the way of the multiple transformation.