On Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience | A Drink with Lyndsey Stonebridge

Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson chats with Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge about Hannah Arendt’s lessons for living in uncertain times.
In this clip, Lyndsey tells us that the best resistance to totalitarianism, according to Hannah Arendt, was thinking, love and friendship, and maybe a drink.
Lyndsey Stonebridge is a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her previous books include Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees, 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. She lives in London.
This conversation was recorded as part of the Idler's weekly online event, A Drink with the Idler. The full recording is available to magazine and Academy subscribers. Visit the website to join: www.idler.co.uk/