Sentence examples for space of appearance from inspiring English sources

For Arendt, therefore, the polis stands for the space of appearance, for that space "where I appear to others as others appear to me, where men exist not merely like other living or inanimate things, but to make their appearance explicitly".

I will then show the connection between action, power and the space of appearance.

Indeed, for Arendt, "power is what keeps the public realm, the potential space of appearance between acting and speaking men, in existence".

It is thus closely connected to the space of appearance, that public space which arises out of the actions and speeches of individuals.

Such public space of appearance can be always recreated anew wherever individuals gather together politically, that is, "wherever men are together in the manner of speech and action" (HC, 198 9).

The space of appearance must be continually recreated by action; its existence is secured whenever actors gather together for the purpose of discussing and deliberating about matters of public concern, and it disappears the moment these activities cease.

For Arendt the reactivation of citizenship in the modern world depends upon both the recovery of a common, shared world and the creation of numerous spaces of appearance in which individuals can disclose their identities and establish relations of reciprocity and solidarity.

Cuarón has done a formidable job of piecing together a plausibly coherent material world of space, of conveying the appearance of that setting and the sensations of the characters who inhabit it.

And I remembered a story the astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman once told me about his walk in space, the appearance of Earth from space, and how Earth's atmosphere looked like a slender blue ribbon wrapped around a ball.

She began the piece by coursing backward across the stage, giving the suddenly large-looking space the appearance of an immense black hole, lighted with tactful imagination by Chloë Z. Brown.

The book was excellently reviewed in England when it appeared in 1991, but within a short space of time of its appearance in Germany in 1992, it became something of a publishing phenomenon.