This article attempts to answer all those scholars who maintain that Hannah Arendt is a political thinker of Hellenic nostalgia. From such a perspective, it is easy to conclude not only that Arendt´s thought is irrelevant to contemporary concerns but that she is an elitist reactionary when it comes to assessing the prospects of representative democracies. It is to be considered here that this reading is wrong and one-sided, and that the major work upon which it is based, <em>The Human Condition</em>, needs to be studied in a nuanced way, as engaging in multiple complex dialogue with philosophic-political tradition. To this end, this paper begins by briefly explicating not at all her dependency upon Heidegger, but rather a “radical conversat...