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Jana Schmidt reviews "We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience" by Lyndsey Stonebridge
Your mid-week read
“The Place of Hannah Arendt”: Jana Schmidt reviews We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience by Lyndsey Stonebridge
Hannah Arendt’s experience as a Jew in Nazi Germany and as a refugee in France and the United States during WWII informed her reflections on the questions of assimilation, human rights and statelessness. This review of Lyndsey Stonebridge’s new book frames Arendt’s thinking around questions of place, home, and exile. As Jana Schmidt points out, Arendt operated with an “outside” political vision informed by her experiences as a refugee: “Arendt’s way of posing the question of politics is innovative because it rethinks the relationship between thinking and action, because it dares to think from a plural perspective, and because it locates politics on the outside of the political places we are familiar with.” You can read the review here.
