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In this episode of Madison's Notes, we sit down with Lindsey Stonebridge, author of We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience (Hogarth, 2024) to explore the enduring relevance of Hannah Arendt's thought. Stonebridge dives into Arendt's remarkable ability to teach students how to think, not just what to think, and reflects on […]

For this episode in the Bio Bites strand of the Philosphy Bites podcast Nigel Warburton interviews Lyndsey Stonebridge, author of a recent book about Hannah Arendt, We Are Free To Change the World, about how her thought was affected by her circumstances as an emigré fleeing Nazism. 

Soudě podle sociálních psychologů se bez lhaní neobejdeme. Četnost našeho lhaní je až šokující. Třeba sociální psycholožka Bella M. DePaulová na základě svých studií tvrdí, že muži i ženy lžou až v pětině svých sociálních výměn trvajících déle než deset minut. A v průběhu týdne oklameme přibližně 30 procent lidí, se kterými jsme v užším kontaktu. Hůře jsou na tom jen skutečně inteligentní lidé: ti s realitou zacházejí ještě o něco volněji. Hannah Arendtová sice tyto výzkumy nemohla znát, nejspíše by ji však nepřekvapily. Lež měla za jeden z těch mála dokladů toho, že člověk je svobodný, že tedy není beze zbytku podmíněn sociálně či situačně, ale s realitou nakládá svobodomyslně. „Kdybych neuměla lhát, nebyla bych svobodná,“ poznamenává si do svého deníku. Zvláštní kategorii tvoří politické lži. Hannah Arendtová je dělí na příklady klasického lhaní; politik v tom případě něco zatají nebo podá jinak, než jak to bylo. Ve svém eseji „Lhaní v politice“, který právě vychází v knize Krize republiky v nakladatelství Herrmann a synové, poznamenává, že leccos se změnilo a svět se potýká s moderním politickým lhaním. O co jde? Německá myslitelka to ilustruje na příkladu Pentagonských dokumentů. Ty podle myslitelky svědčí o tom, že se kolem politiky začali točit „noví“ intelektuálové a různí odborníci na veřejnost, kteří mají za to, že se nad realitu mohou povznést. Vycházejí ze smyšlených premis či plánů, a proto také nelze tvrdit, že by druhým přímo lhali. Nejprve totiž oklamou sami sebe a následně usilují o to, aby nevyhovující realitu nahradili tím, co si myslí, že by mělo platit. Arendtová tento postup nazývá „defaktualizací“ světa. Nápadné na tom je, že se občané mnohdy oklamat nedají. V tom tkví naděje těchto lží – pluralita je nezměrná a skutečnost nakonec bude mít poslední slovo. Akorát je problém, že se za ignorování reality platí. Leč mnohdy nejsou plátci ti, kteří na samém počátku oklamali sami sebe. Kapitoly I. Lež podmínkou života? [Úvod až 15:40] II. Láska ke světu, ne k filozofii. [15:40–34:00] III. Co je lež? Třeba i přehánění [34:00–43:00] IV. Image making: Pakt politiků a „nových intelektuálů“ [43:00 až konec] Bibliografie Hannah Arendtová, Krize republiky, přel. Petr Fantys, Praha: Herrmann a synové, 2024. Hannah Arendtová, Původ totalitarismu, I–III, přel. J. Fraňková, J. Rypka et al., Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2013. Christine Comaford, „Why We Lie, And The Neuroscience Behind It“, in: Forbes, 17. 10. 2020, https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinecomaford/2020/10/17/why-we-lie-and-the-neuroscience-behind-it/ Bella M. DePaulo, „The Many Faces of Lies“, in A. G. Miller (vyd.), The Social Psychology of Good and Evil, New York: Guilford Press, 2004, str. 303–326. Bettina Stangneth, Lügen lesen, Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2017, str. 34. Lyndsey Stonebridge, We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience, New York: Vintage, 2025, str. 121 (Kindle Edition). Ondřej Šmigol, „Britský horor. Skandál násilnických gangů znovu propukl“, in: Echoprime, 16. 1. 2025.

On this episode we speak to Orlando Reade about What in Me is Dark; his exploration of the radical life of Paradise Lost. Within it, the author considers the relationship between the poem and some of the writers and revolutionaries who have drawn inspiration from it over the centuries since its writing. From Mary Shelley to Malcolm X the influence of Milton's epic is as far reaching as the poet hoped it to be, but in intriguingly contradictory ways. What in Me Is Dark is an accessible and dynamic reappraisal of Paradise Lost which opens up the poem's central themes of freedom and consequence both for first time readers of Milton's work and those who know it well.'If we ever needed a lesson about the challenges of freedom it is now.'Lyndsey Stonebridge, author of 'We Are Free To Change The World.''Wonderfully written, intelligent and moving.'Leah Redmond Chang, author of 'Young Queens.''Orlando Reade writes with exhilarating style, luminous clarity and irreverent wit.'Anna Della Subin, author of 'Accidental Gods.'If you've enjoyed the pod this year, why not subscribe to never miss an episode and leave us a review or rating.  @fieldzine www.fieldzine.comwww.patreon.com/fieldzine

Tessa Szyszkowitz in conversation with Lyndsey Stonebridge WE ARE FREE TO CHANGE THE WORLDWhat do Hannah Arendt's lessons in love and disobedience mean for us? What a combination: Love and Disobedience. The author Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, is choosing this combination on purpose. Especially now, when nations vote for authoritarian leaders and democracy is threatened, Stonebridge focuses on Arendt's writing and these two crucial ingredients for effective and powerful defiance. Love was for Arendt, as Stonebridge writes, “the infinitely precious pleasure in human otherness. Love is the pre-political condition of us being together in the world in the first place”. And disobedience? In her 1970 essay „Civil Disobedience“ the leading public intellectual of her time defended the right of American citizens to dissent from the laws and policies of the government. It was Hannah Arendt's experience from resistance to totalitarian rule in her first home country Germany which lead her to conviction that every person must decide for themselves when injustice calls for disobedience. Following Immanuel Kant Arendt emphasised that independent thinking is the first defence against tyranny. Arendt's “The Origins of Totalitarianism” became a bestseller when Donald Trump was elected in 2016. In 2024 it is even more relevant. Trump 2.0 is Trump Unleashed.

Lyndsey Stonebridge (Humans rights academic, Hannah Arendt biographer) was worried about the banality of evil she was observing in the world and so dug down into the work of controversial philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt for insights. Her new book, We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience is a guide on how to live--and think--through a moment like the one we're in now in the wake of the US election. It draws on Arendt's ideas about totalitarianism, loneliness, the dulling of the mind, capitalism, as well as the imperative to love the world. Lyndsey is a Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. and writes and broadcasts about a range of topical subjects: refugees, feminism and the moral mind. In 2023, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. SHOW NOTESI mention the Wild episode with BBC Washington correspondent Nick Bryant Get your copy of Lyndsey's new book, We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience Read more about Lyndsey's work here and follow her on IG here --If you need to know a bit more about me… head to my "about" pageFor more such conversations subscribe to my Substack newsletter, it's where I interact the most!Get your copy of my book, This One Wild and Precious LifeLet's connect on Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are The Empire Report's JP Miller, Former Times Union Associate Editor Mike Spain, Roger Berkowitz is Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, and speakers from the Hannah Arendt Center Conference Uday Singh Mehta, Lyndsey Stonebridge, and Shai Lavi.

Today's world is in much need of change. But what can we do as individuals and as a society? And how can we bring a humanities perspectives to the change that the world needs? Who better to talk to than Lyndsey Stonebridge, author of the book “We are free to change the world”. Lyndsey refers to her book a "critical creative biography of Hannah Arendt". It is very topical in the way it helps us to think about our troubled political times. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michaela-mahlberg/message

In this all-new episode, Krista engages biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus in a second, urgent conversation, alongside creative biomimicry practitioner Azita Ardakani Walton. Together they trace precise guidance and applied wisdom from the natural world for the civilizational callings before us now. What does nature have to teach us about healing from trauma? And how might those of us aspiring to good and generative lives start to function like an ecosystem rather than a collection of separate, siloed projects? We are in kinship. How to make that real — and in making it real, make it more of an offering to the whole wide world?Krista, Azita, and Janine spoke at the January 2024 gathering of visionaries, activists, and creatives where Krista also drew out Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson for the recent episode on Hannah Arendt. We're excited to bring you back into that room.Janine Benyus's classic work is Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. She is the co-founder of the non-profit Biomimicry Institute. She also co-founded Biomimicry 3.8, a consulting and training company. Azita Ardakani Walton is a philanthropist and social entrepreneur. Her projects have included, among many things, the creative agency Lovesocial and the experimental investment vehicle, Honeycomb Portfolio. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.______Sign up for The Pause — a Saturday morning companion newsletter to the On Being podcast season, and our mailing list for news and invitations all year round. Be the first to know as tickets go on sale for the On Being 2025 live national conversation tour.

Here is a stunning sentence for you, written by Lyndsey Stonebridge, our guest this hour, channeling the 20th-century political thinker and journalist Hannah Arendt: "Loneliness is the bully that coerces us into giving up on democracy." This conversation is a kind of guide to generative shared deliberations we might be having with each other and ourselves in this intensely fraught global political moment: on the human underlay that gives democracy its vigor or threatens to undo it; on the difference between facts and truth — and on the difference between violence and power. Krista interviewed Lyndsey once before, in 2017, after Hannah Arendt's classic work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, had become a belated runaway bestseller. Now Lyndsey has published her own wonderful book offering her and Arendt's full prescient wisdom for this time. What emerges is elevating and exhilaratingly thoughtful — while also brimming with helpful, practicable words and ideas. We have, in Lyndsey's phrase, "un-homed" ourselves. And yet we are always defined by our capacity to give birth to something new — and so to partake again and again in the deepest meaning of freedom.Hannah Arendt's other epic books include The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem, in which she famously coined the phrase "the banality of evil." She was born a German Jew in 1906, fled Nazi Germany and spent many years as a stateless person, and died an American citizen in 1975. This conversation with Lyndsey Stonebridge happened in January 2024, as part of a gathering of visionaries, activists, and creatives across many fields. Krista interviewed her alongside Lucas Johnson, a former leader of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation who now leads our social healing initiatives at The On Being Project.Lyndsey Stonebridge is a Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. Her 2024 book is We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience. Her other books include Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees. In 2023, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.Lucas Johnson is Executive Vice President of Public Life & Social Healing at The On Being Project. He was previously a leader of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, the world's oldest interfaith peace organization.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.______Sign up for The Pause — a Saturday morning companion newsletter to the On Being podcast season, and news and invitations all year round. Be the first to know as tickets go on sale for the On Being 2025 live national conversation tour.

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Recorded April 19, 2023. The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture for 2023 was delivered by Prof Lyndsey Stonebridge (Interdisciplinary Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham). In February 2023, photos appeared on social media of piles of books dumped in the streets outside the Pryazovskyi State University in Mariupol, allegedly by occupying Russian soldiers. In the US and elsewhere novels and history books are being weaponized in the culture wars. The humanities are back on the frontline of ideology and politics. In this lecture, Lyndsey Stonebridge turns to political-philosopher, Hannah Arendt's writing on twentieth-century totalitarianism to argue why we need to fight for a new anti-totalitarian humanities today. Lyndsey Stonebridge is Interdisciplinary Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham. Her previous books include: The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, 2014, Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees (2018), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Best Book Prize, 2018, and a collection of essay, Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights (2020). We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience will be published by Jonathan Cape in January 2024.

The legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of ‘aggressive war' came out of the international war crimes tribunals after WWII – in Germany and Japan. In Judgement at Tokyo the academic and writer Gary J. Bass retells the dramatic courtroom battles as Japan's militaristic leaders were held accountable for their crimes. With prosecutors and judges drawn from eleven different Allied countries tensions flared, and justice in the Asia Pacific played out amidst the start of the Cold War, China's descent into civil war, and the end of the European empires.The political philosopher Hannah Arendt witnessed the end of the trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1963, coining the phrase ‘the banality of evil' – a term that is often mistakenly believed to mean that evil had become ordinary. In We Are Free To Change The World, the writer Lyndsey Stonebridge explores Arendt's writings on power and terror, love and justice, and their relevance in today's uncertain times.As the world grows increasingly turbulent war crimes justice is needed more than ever, but it appears to be failing. Since the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands opened in 2002 it has jailed just five war criminals. The journalist and war reporter Chris Stephen looks back at its history and examines alternative options in The Future of War Crimes Justice.Producer: Katy Hickman

Sean Illing talks with professor Lyndsey Stonebridge about the philosopher Hannah Arendt, author of The Origins of Totalitarianism. Arendt might be best known for coining the phrase “the banality of evil” in her reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, but in this episode Sean and Lyndsey discuss Arendt's insights into the roots of mass movements, how her flight from Nazi occupation shaped her worldview, and how loneliness and isolation — which abound in our world today — can prepare a population for an authoritarian turn. The Philosophers is a new monthly series from Vox Conversations. Each episode will focus on a philosophical figure or school of thought from the past, and discuss how their ideas can help us make sense of our modern world and lives today. Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), Interviews writer, Vox Guest: Lyndsey Stonebridge (@lyndseystonebri), author; professor of humanities and human rights, University of Birmingham Works by Hannah Arendt:  The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), with the inclusion of the chapter "Ideology and Terror" in 1953; Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963); The Human Condition (1958); "Home to Roost: A Bicentennial Address" (1975); "Personal Responsibility under Dictatorship" (1964) Other References:  The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg by Lyndsey Stonebridge (Edinburgh University Press; 2011) Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees by Lyndsey Stonebridge (Oxford; 2018) Thinking Like Hannah Arendt by Lyndsey Stonebridge (Jonathan Cape; forthcoming 2022) "A 1951 book about totalitarianism is flying off the shelves. Here's why" by Sean Illing (Vox; updated Jan. 30, 2019) "Where loneliness can lead" by Samantha Rose Hill (Aeon; Oct. 16, 2020) The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman (1950) Immanuel Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) for the "categorical imperative" Enjoyed this episode? Rate Vox Conversations ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Vox Conversations by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Support Vox Conversations by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts This episode was made by:  Producer: Erikk Geannikis Editor: Amy Drozdowska Deputy Editorial Director, Vox Talk: Amber Hall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Adam Etinson, Yoriko Otomo, and Lyndsey Stonebridge discuss the advantages and limitations of the human rights model

Lyndsey Stonebridge is a writer and professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham. A prolific author, her writing has earned her a number of accolades, including the Modernist Studies Association book prize. She speaks to Georgina Godwin about her latest book, ‘Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights’.

Memory and narratives play a crucial role in transitional justice. What do we remember of past violence, and how do we narrate those memories? In which ways can such narratives, in all their complexity, help us to better understand violence? Literature is one place where we often find narratives of violence, but also in transitional justice narratives are everywhere: they lie at the basis of truth-seeking, and criminal justice trials might stand or fall depending on how victims narrate their memories. In this podcast episode, we talk to Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at Birmingham University. In her book ‘The Judicial imagination: writing after Nuremberg’ she touches upon issues such as what it means to tell a story, how we listen, and how to make sure that victims’ voices are adequately captured?

Migrants and refugees: Laurie Taylor explores the historical and contemporary realities of the marooned, unhomed and displaced peoples of the world. Today's refugee 'crisis' has its origins in the political–and imaginative–history of the last century. Exiles from other places have often caused trouble for ideas about sovereignty, law and nationhood. Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, charts the changing meaning of exile. Also, how do the lives of migrants in London illuminate our complex, urban multiculture? Les Back, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Shamser Sinha, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Youth Studies at the University of Suffolk, talk about a unique, collaborative study which involved 30 young migrants. Producer: Jayne Egerton

This week Stephanie Boland speaks to historian of ideas Lyndsey Stonebridge about refugees and their status. How should history inform our thinking about the current refugee crisis? What rights should displaced people have? 

Stonebridge focuses on the literary side of those questions. Her new book is Placeless People and you can read her Prospect contributions here. Before we get to that, Alex Dean on the Lib Dems and Sameer Rahim on Spike Lee's new film BlacKkKlansman See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nothing is helping us more right now, as we watch human tragedies unfold on the U.S.-Mexican border and elsewhere, than a conversation Krista had last year with literary historian Lyndsey Stonebridge — on thinking and friendship in dark times. She applies the moral clarity of the 20th-century philosopher Hannah Arendt to now — an invitation to dwell on the human essence of events we analyze as political and economic. Our dramas of exile and displacement are existential, she says — about who we will all be as people and political community. What Arendt called the “banality of evil” was at root an inability to hear another voice. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “The Moral World in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt for Now — Lyndsey Stonebridge.” Find more at onbeing.org.

Nothing is helping us more right now, as we watch human tragedies unfold on the U.S.-Mexican border and elsewhere, than a conversation Krista had last year with literary historian Lyndsey Stonebridge — on thinking and friendship in dark times. She applies the moral clarity of the 20th-century philosopher Hannah Arendt to now — an invitation to dwell on the human essence of events we analyze as political and economic. Our dramas of exile and displacement are existential, she says — about who we will all be as people and political community. What Arendt called the “banality of evil” was at root an inability to hear another voice. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

Historian and psychoanalyst Daniel Pick of Birkbeck College, University of London tells the story of how aerial bombardment - from Zeppelins to B52s, from H-Bombs to drones - has made the unconscious mind a field of battle. Daniel explores how, in the shadow of the First World War, Freud turned his analytical eye from desire to the 'death drive', and how psychoanalysts probed what might happen if another war came. Would survivors of mass aerial bombardment hold up psychically, or would they collapse into infantile panic? Or would they become uncontrollably aggressive? And why do humans come to be so aggressive in the first place? When the war - and the bombers - did come to Britain, it appeared that survivors were much more stoical and defiant than had been expected. But, as Daniel discovers, brave faces concealed a great deal of psychological damage. With historian Lyndsey Stonebridge, he visits the Wellcome Library to see - courtesy of the Melanie Klein Trust - the case notes of the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein on her analysis of a troubled ten year old boy, 'Richard'. What do Klein's notes, and Richard's extraordinary drawings, reveal about his attitude to being bombed? Daniel examines how, with the advent of the Cold War and the distinct possibility that bombs and missiles could destroy civilisation, technocrats trying to plan for the end of the world coped with staring into the abyss. Finally, Daniel shows how a radical new turn in aerial bombardment opens up this field anew. Nuclear weapons can destroy the planet; but what does it do to the mind to live under the threat of 'surgical' attack by unmanned drones? With: Derek Gregory, Peter Hennessy, Dagmar Herzog, Richard Overy, Lyndsey Stonebridge Producer: Phil Tinline.

Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Modern Literature and History at the University of East Anglia, talks to Rita Phillips about literary humanitarianism and the ethics of empathy.