We are Free to Change the World: Lessons from Hannah Arendt
In 1971, in Americam rocked by an unpopular war, political scandal, and civil unrest, the political theorist, Hannah Arendt, wrote: ‘We are free to change the world and put something new in it.’ What did she mean, and what in her life and thought had led her to this startling statement?
Drawing on her new book Lyndsey Stonebridge will discuss how Hannah Arendt’s life as a woman, a Jew, and a refugee shaped her extraordinary thinking, looking at the world from outside conventional academic and political categories. What can we learn from her anti-totalitarian thinking today?
Date:
3 May 2024, 17:30 (Friday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Venue:
Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details:
Hotung Auditorium
Speaker:
Lyndsey Stonebridge
Organising department:
Mansfield College
Organiser:
Asima Qayyum (Mansfield College)
Organiser contact email address:
communications@mansfield.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Helen Mountfield, QC (Mansfield College)
Part of:
Mansfield Public Talks
Booking required?:
Recommended
Booking url:
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Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Asima Qayyum