Cosmos and republic : Arendtian explorations of the loss and recovery of politics Klappentext: Inspired by Hannah Arendts analysis of crisis ridden modernity Wolfgang Heuer addresses exemplary aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics and thus of freedom in 20 essays. He argues that politics can recover if it is based on personal responsibility in the political realm in civil society and even under dictatorial conditions; if the pictorial and emotional conditions of successful judgement are understood; if human plurality is given its specific political organisational form; and finally if sustainability is understood as a principle of action not only towards nature but also towards politics and society.