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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory
Episode: Lyndsey Stonebridge on Hannah Arendt's Lessons on Love and Disobedience (JP)
Description: An Arendt expert has arrived at Arendt-obsessed Recall This Book. Lyndsey Stonebridge discusses her widely praised 2024 We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience. Lesley sees both radical evil and the banality of evil at work in Nazi Germany and in the causes of suffering and death in Gaza today. She compares the moral idiocy of authoritarians (like the murderous Nazis and those who are starving Gaza) to that of philosophers who cannot hear the echoes of what they are doing.
Lesley and John discuss Arendt’s belief in the fragile e...