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

“It follows a series of questions rather than a sequence of events from Arendt’s life. But it’s richly informed by the biographical study of Arendt, because you can’t really understand Hannah Arendt except by tying her into her times and the places she lived, the people she interacted with. She wrote about totalitarianism as somebody who’d experienced it. She emphasized the importance of freedom and resisting dominant ways of thinking, having lived through Nazi Germany, and survived exile in Paris, and later a certain degree of alienation as an exile in America.” Read more...

The Best Philosophy Books of 2024

Nigel Warburton, Philosopher

“Can a book about a towering philosopher ever be described as ‘zippy’? That’s the word that keeps coming back to me when I think about Lyndsey Stonebridge’s compellingly readable book on Hannah Arendt’s life and work. With antisemitism and totalitarianism on the rise in 2024, Arendt’s lucid thinking is as relevant as ever. We Are Free to Change the World deserves to be read far and wide, especially on university campuses.” Read more...

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