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<b>This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty<br> <br> 'Compelling and original'</b> OBSERVER<br> <br> <b>'An absorbing new biography... Admirable'</b> ECONOMIST<br> <br> <b>'Invigorating and insightful'</b> FINANCIAL TIMES<br> <br> The violent unease of today's world would have been all too familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration, the banality of evil- she had lived through them all.<br> <br> Born in the first decade of the last century, Arendt escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one of the world's most influential - and controversial - public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all about freedom. Questioning - thinking - was her first defence against tyranny. In place of the forces of darkness and insanity, she pitched a politics of plurality, spontaneity and defiance. Loving the world, Arendt taught, meant finding the courage to protect it.<br> <br> Written with passion and authority, Lyndsey Stonebridge's <i>We Are Free to Change the World</i> illuminates Arendt's life and work and its urgent dialogue with our troubled present. It calls on each of us to think our way, as Hannah Arendt did - unflinchingly, lovingly and defiantly - through our own unpredictable times.