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We Are Free to Change the World

Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience

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We Are Free to Change the World

By: Lyndsey Stonebridge
Narrated by: Cosima Shaw
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A bold exploration of the life and work of one of the world’s most influential – and controversial – thinkers, which brings Arendt’s ideas into urgent dialogue with our troubled present.

Hannah Arendt wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all about freedom. In place of the forces of darkness and tyranny, 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, We Are Free to Change the World calls on each of us to think our way, as Arendt did – unflinchingly, lovingly, and defiantly – through our own unpredictable times.

‘A rare gem’ SHAMI CHAKRABARTI

'An absorbing new biography... Admirable' ECONOMIST

'Invigorating and insightful' FINANCIAL TIMES

‘Exhilarating, brilliant and utterly original’ PHILIPPE SANDS

©2024 Lyndsey Stonebridge (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Once or twice a little patronising of Arendt, in the modern way. Otherwise a robust account of a great life well led. I would loved to have heard a more studied analysis of Arendt’s relationship with Simone de Beauvoir, and her refusal to write an introduction to The Second Sex.

Robust and enlightening

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Full of twists, turns and beauty, an instant classic and an act of defiance. Nevertheless, she persisted.

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