This book identifies Jean-Jacques Rousseau as prefiguring the shift from understanding privacy as deprivation to understanding it as sheltering intimacy from society. This book argues that the Reformation, the discovery of America, and the invention of the telescope determined the character of the “Modern Age.” (-5[1])In this book, the author coined a term for the beginning inherent in birth that is the ontological root of our capacity to begin. This book’s introduction of that term, “natality,” (-5[1])has been (-5[1])linked to the author’s studies at the University of Marburg (10[1])in the 1920s. This book’s (-5[1])final chapter describes the “victory of homo faber” (10[1]-5[1])and explains (10[2])a (-5[1])concept (10[1])designating the three activities of “labor, work, (10[1])and action.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this book that contrasts the vita contemplativa with the vita activa, (-5[2])by Hannah (10[1])Arendt. ■END■ (10[8]0[7])