Doesn’t everyday work, planning and manufacturing activities, science technology, and even partly artistic creativity serve as an escape from political action, from the open public world? Hannah Arendt tends to answer this question positively. She is concerned about the state of modern society, which is locked into the busyness of production and consumption. The historical possibilities of free personal action remain unclaimed. The book subjected to a broad systematic analysis the initial needs and conditions of human existence, the main types of human history associated with the shift of the center of gravity to science and the invasion of mankind into space. One of the rare philosophical works of our time, capable of captivating any educated reader.