This essay brings the political theory of Hannah Arendt into the company of several key debates in democratic theory. Though she is most renowned for her theory of political action, it is my contention that Arendt's concept of World can productively change the very terms by which democratic politics is most often understood and questioned. This essay takes up this matter by way of a thorough exploration of World alienation, the subject with which Arendt began and concluded her seminal work of political theory, The Human Condition