Hannah Arendt wanted political thinking to be urgent and engaged. She is a philosopher for our times
- Written by Ned Curthoys, Senior Lecturer in English and Literary Studies, The University of Western Australia
Lyndsey Stonebridge begins We Are Free to Change the World, her illuminating biography of Hannah Arendt, by reminding us of her subject’s continuing relevance.
Arendt is sometimes thought of as a lofty and abstract thinker. Yet her thinking was highly responsive to the shock of Nazism and the rise of fascism, which left her stateless and...





