Are not everyday work, planning and manufacturing activities, science technology and even partly artistic creativity an escape from political action, from the open public world? Hannah Arendt tends to answer this question in the affirmative. She is worried about the state of modern society, which is closed in the efficiency of production and consumption. The historical possibilities of free personal action remain unclaimed. The initial needs and conditions of human existence, the main types of human activity and, above all, the turn of human history associated with the transfer of the center of gravity to science and the invasion of mankind into space are subjected to a broad systematic analysis in the book. This book is the main work on political theory, which laid the foundation of this science in the 20th century.One of the rare philosophical works of our time that can captivate any educated reader.Saved in a4.pdf format publishing layout.