Arendt "public Domain" Thought

Hannah Arendt is a contemporary prominent thinker and philosopher in west. Since the 1950s, her thought has been intensely disputing. But it indeed provided contemporary political formation and development with new ideas and ways. She took classical political republicanism system as paradigm to restore the classical political republicanism. According to it she constructed her thoughts of the public domain. and showed her political ideal from the model of classical cities. In her opinion, the public domain is a place for people to display their disparity, and a space to show their own existence, which explore the public meaning of politics. Meanwhile, she entitled such politics a independent status. She introduced the concept of action to the field of the political practice, and thus acquired the public domain concept. Through the differences of the labor, work and actions belonged to human activities, she got the limit between the private domain and the public domain, and then studied the destruction of public domain and private domain owing to social area. And she reviewed the impact from the political practice area by economic activity brought by western modernity. Thus he formed his special political thoughts.