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Arendt the human condition5/20/2023 50), ‘.everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by everybody and has the widest possible publicity’. In Arendt’s writing on ‘The Public and the Private Realm’, she identifies two elements of the public. Both a political and a philosophical expose, this work traverses antiquity through to the modern era. We give attention then to a range of publics-multiple, counter and little and our new theorisation of migrating publics.Īrendt’s work in the Human Condition (1958) is an interrogation on what constitutes being human. We then briefly look at Jurgen Habermas’ concept of the public sphere and a counter argument to this concept through the word of Michael Warner (2002). In order to understand how Arendt engages with and conceptualises the public realm it is necessary to extrapolate the circulation of modes of being Arendt identifies as occurring within society. In this section, we initially outline Arendt’s conceptualisation of the public and what she argues has been the erasure of the public realm. Primarily we draw on the ideas of Hannah Arendt from her book the Human Condition (1958). How this public is actualised differs according to different theorists. We argue there is no actualisation of the public without people. In this section, we look at what constitutes this word public in order to understand the elements that render possible the actualisation of participation in the public realm.
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