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The aestheticizing reification of politics that we can see in National Socialism does not reveal the non-political essence of the political, as was once said, but its death. But neither does she seek the creation of a political space that would be in itself a 'work of art.' To see the essence of politics as a welcoming phenomenality, a locus of pure appearance that has been freed from the schema of domination, seems to represent an aestheticization that does not correspond to Arendt's thought. "Throughout the life of narrative seen as a 'quest' for shareable meaning, it is therefore not a total and totalizing work that Arendt seeks. This essay analyzes the implications of the performative aspects of Julia Kristevas Powers of Horror by situating this work in the context of similar. What does abject mean in English Abject comes from 'abjectus,' the past participle of the Latin verb abicere, meaning 'to cast off. "Admittedly more a summary of a system of thought than a witty epigram, per se, but here is Julia Kristeva from her "Hannah Arendt: Life Is A Narrative" on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt - ACCORDING TO JULIA KRISTEVA in the Powers of Horror, the abject refers to the human reaction (horror, vomit) to a threatened breakdown in meaning caused by the loss of the distinction between subject and object or between self and other.