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WE ARE FREE TO CHANGE THE WORLD - LYNDSEY STONE...

In the months after Donald Trump's election  Hannah Arendt's seminal work  The Origins of
Totalitarianism crashed onto the Amazon bestseller lists. Never has our future been more
unpredictable  she had written in the preface to the first edition in 1951  never have we
depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense
and self-interest - forces that look like sheer insanity  if judged by the standards of other
centuries. With an uncannily accurate prescience  Arendt's dark history of her times seemed to
be describing the insanity of our own. Arendt would've recognized the extremes of the
twenty-first century from her own: the disenchantment with politics  the rise of conspiracy
theories  self-censorship  powerlessness  tyranny and occupation  the climate catastrophe  the
banality of evil. She had lived through it already. Born in the first decade of the last
century  just before it lurched into war  she escaped Fascist Europe to make a new life for
herself in America  where she became one its most influential-and controversial-public
intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror  exile and love  and above all about freedom.
Hannah Arendt wrote  and thought  in order to engage directly with the political chaos of her
time. Questioning - thinking - was her first defence against tyranny. Her approach was to
change the world by examining it unflinchingly  and not simply to criticise and protest. It is
this defiance that attracts so many to her work today--

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