{"product_id":"we-are-free-to-change-the-world-hannah-arendts-lessons-in-love-and-disobedience-9780593229736","title":"We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience","description":"\u003cb\u003eA timely guide on how to live--and think--through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century's foremost opponents of totalitarianism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"We are \u003ci\u003efree\u003c\/i\u003e to change the world and to start something new in it.\"--Hannah Arendt\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe violent unease of today's world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration: She lived through them all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in the first decade of the last century, she escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one of its 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 defense against tyranny. She advocated a politics of action and plurality, courage and, when necessary, disobedience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Are Free to Change the World \u003c\/i\u003eis a book about the Arendt we need for the twenty-first century. It tells us how and why Arendt came to think the way she did, and how to think when our own politics goes off the rails. Both a guide to Arendt's life and work, and its dialogue with our troubled present, \u003ci\u003eWe Are Free to Change the World \u003c\/i\u003eis an urgent call for us to think, as Hannah Arendt did--unflinchingly, lovingly, and defiantly--through our own unpredictable times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLyndsey Stonebridge \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham (UK) and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her previous books include \u003ci\u003ePlaceless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and a Choice\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eOutstanding Academic Title; \u003ci\u003eThe Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature; and the essay collection \u003ci\u003eWriting and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a regular media commentator and broadcaster. She lives in London and France.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hogarth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50592388874514,"sku":"9780593229736","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9e444a83-09d0-43f8-83a9-b8ad25606796.jpg?v=1732103525","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/we-are-free-to-change-the-world-hannah-arendts-lessons-in-love-and-disobedience-9780593229736","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}