Hannah Arendt (Author)
Hannah Arendt was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906, and received
her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg. In
1933, she was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo, after which she
fled Germany for Paris, where she worked on behalf of Jewish
refugee children. In 1937, she was stripped of her German
citizenship, and in 1941 she left France for the United States. Her
many books include The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human
Condition (1958) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), in which she
coined the famous phrase 'the banality of evil'. She died in
1975.
Lyndsey Stonebridge (Introducer)
Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights
at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of We Are
Free to Change the World- Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and
Disobedience (2024); Placeless People- Writing, Rights, and
Refugees (2018); winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book
Prize and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; The Judicial
Imagination- Writing After Nuremberg, which won the British Academy
Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature; and the essay
collection, Writing and Righting- Literature in the Age of Human
Rights. She is a regular media commentator and broadcaster, and
lives in London.
www.lyndseystonebridge.com
Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it
provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our
times
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