Ned O'Gorman is professor of communication at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of The Iconoclastic Imagination, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• PrefaceIntroduction. Prodigal PoliticsChapter 1. Untwisting PoliticsChapter 2. Phenomenal PoliticsChapter 3. Judging PoliticsChapter 4. Lies, Damned Lies, and PoliticsChapter 5. Why We Need RhetoricChapter 6. The Political Imagination (or, Freedom!)Conclusion. Politics RebornAcknowledgmentsArtist StatementNotesBibliographyIndex

"Animated not just by a theoretical and academic interest in Arendt’s work, but also by a practical intent to change the current manner of seeing politics and improve the quality of citizenship and freedom, as well as the daily art of living together. . . Written not only from the scholar’s but also from the citizen’s perspective and with the critical responsibility of the public intellectual for the values and culture of his society. . . . In a sense, the main message of O’Gorman’s book is that, if we are to properly rise to the challenges of the twenty-first century, in a world that is increasingly characterized by change and uncertainty and where strangers are, literally, at our doors, we need to relearn the art of living together, as strangers and across our differences, and of imagining and creating together “new, relatively stable political orders.""

Ned O'Gorman is professor of communication at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of The Iconoclastic Imagination, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• PrefaceIntroduction. Prodigal PoliticsChapter 1. Untwisting PoliticsChapter 2. Phenomenal PoliticsChapter 3. Judging PoliticsChapter 4. Lies, Damned Lies, and PoliticsChapter 5. Why We Need RhetoricChapter 6. The Political Imagination (or, Freedom!)Conclusion. Politics RebornAcknowledgmentsArtist StatementNotesBibliographyIndex

"Animated not just by a theoretical and academic interest in Arendt’s work, but also by a practical intent to change the current manner of seeing politics and improve the quality of citizenship and freedom, as well as the daily art of living together. . . Written not only from the scholar’s but also from the citizen’s perspective and with the critical responsibility of the public intellectual for the values and culture of his society. . . . In a sense, the main message of O’Gorman’s book is that, if we are to properly rise to the challenges of the twenty-first century, in a world that is increasingly characterized by change and uncertainty and where strangers are, literally, at our doors, we need to relearn the art of living together, as strangers and across our differences, and of imagining and creating together “new, relatively stable political orders.""

Ned O'Gorman is professor of communication at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of The Iconoclastic Imagination, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• PrefaceIntroduction. Prodigal PoliticsChapter 1. Untwisting PoliticsChapter 2. Phenomenal PoliticsChapter 3. Judging PoliticsChapter 4. Lies, Damned Lies, and PoliticsChapter 5. Why We Need RhetoricChapter 6. The Political Imagination (or, Freedom!)Conclusion. Politics RebornAcknowledgmentsArtist StatementNotesBibliographyIndex

"Animated not just by a theoretical and academic interest in Arendt’s work, but also by a practical intent to change the current manner of seeing politics and improve the quality of citizenship and freedom, as well as the daily art of living together. . . Written not only from the scholar’s but also from the citizen’s perspective and with the critical responsibility of the public intellectual for the values and culture of his society. . . . In a sense, the main message of O’Gorman’s book is that, if we are to properly rise to the challenges of the twenty-first century, in a world that is increasingly characterized by change and uncertainty and where strangers are, literally, at our doors, we need to relearn the art of living together, as strangers and across our differences, and of imagining and creating together “new, relatively stable political orders.""