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We Are Free to Change the World

Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience

Lyndsey Stonebridge

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Jonathan Cape Ltd
25 February 2024
This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty

This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty

'Compelling and original' OBSERVER

'An absorbing new biography... Admirable' ECONOMIST

'Invigorating and insightful' FINANCIAL TIMES

The violent unease of today's world would have been all too familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration, the banality of evil- she had lived through them all.

Born in the first decade of the last century, Arendt escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one of the world's most influential - and controversial - public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all about freedom. Questioning - thinking - was her first defence against tyranny. In place of the forces of darkness and insanity, she pitched a politics of plurality, spontaneity and defiance. Loving the world, Arendt taught, meant finding the courage to protect it.

Written with passion and authority, Lyndsey Stonebridge's We Are Free to Change the World illuminates Arendt's life and work and its urgent dialogue with our troubled present. It calls on each of us to think our way, as Hannah Arendt did - unflinchingly, lovingly and defiantly - through our own unpredictable times.

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Imprint:   Jonathan Cape Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 242mm,  Width: 165mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   506g
ISBN:   9781787332522
ISBN 10:   1787332527
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  ELT Advanced ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of We Are Free to Change the World- Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience (2024); Placeless People- Writing, Rights, and Refugees (2018); winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; The Judicial Imagination- Writing After Nuremberg, which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature; and the essay collection, Writing and Righting- Literature in the Age of Human Rights. She is a regular media commentator and broadcaster, and lives in London. www.lyndseystonebridge.com

Reviews for We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience

An exhilarating, brilliant and utterly original read; an iconic 20th century figure brought to life in all her facets, splendours and complexities -- Philippe Sands, author of East West Street A passionate, original defence of the politics of thinking, and especially of women thinking in public, We are Free to Change the World is witty, moving, and inspiring, at once fiercely angry and a work of deep moral wisdom -- Sarah Churchwell, author of BEHOLD, AMERICA


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