{"product_id":"we-are-free-to-change-lyndsey-stonebridge-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lyndsey Stonebridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593229738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593229736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hogarth Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2023","brand":"Lyndsey Stonebridge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44227487236351,"sku":"9780593229736","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_531448fb-4789-415d-8e01-e66952eb4f8a.jpg?v=1692808958","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/we-are-free-to-change-lyndsey-stonebridge-9780593229736","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}