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Hannah Arendt’s Lessons

03/09/2025
60 min
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Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, We Are Free to Change The World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience offers a bold exploration of the life and work of one of the world’s most influential—and controversial—thinkers. Lyndsey Stonebridge brings Arendt’s ideas into urgent conversation with our turbulent present. Writing unflinchingly about power, terror, exile, and freedom, Arendt championed a politics of plurality, spontaneity, and defiance over darkness and tyranny. Stonebridge, award-winning author of Placeless People and The Judicial Imagination, discusses these themes with lawyer and writer Anthony Julius.

An event from Jewish Book Week 2025.

About the speakers

Lyndsey Stonebridge

Lyndsey Stonebridge is a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham (UK) and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her award-winning books include Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees; The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg; and We are Free to Change the World; Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience.
Anthony Julius

Anthony Julius is deputy chairman of the international law firm Mishcon de Reya and a professor in the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He is the author of T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form, among other books.

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Hannah Arendt’s Lessons

03/09/2025
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60 min

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Lyndsey Stonebridge

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Lyndsey Stonebridge is a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham (UK) and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her...

Anthony Julius

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Anthony Julius is deputy chairman of the international law firm Mishcon de Reya and a professor in the Faculty of Laws, University College London....