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Nothing is helping us more right now than a conversation Krista had 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, and 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. (Original Air Date: May 18, 2017)
About the Guest:
Lyndsey Stonebridge is a professor of modern literature and history at the University of East Anglia in Norfolk, England. She’s the author of “The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg” as well as the essay “Thinking Without Banisters” for “Jewish Quarterly” magazine.
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Nothing is helping us more right now than a conversation Krista had 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, and 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. (Original Air Date: May 18, 2017)
About the Guest:
Lyndsey Stonebridge is a professor of modern literature and history at the University of East Anglia in Norfolk, England. She’s the author of “The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg” as well as the essay “Thinking Without Banisters” for “Jewish Quarterly” magazine.
Visit our website to read the transcript, download the episode, or listen to the unedited interview: onbeing.org/programs/lyndsey-stonebridge-the-moral-world-in-dark-times-hannah-arendt-for-now-jun2018
Visit our On Being Classics Library, where this episode is featured:
onbeing.org/libraries/classics
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On Being with Krista Tippett: onbeing.org/series/podcast
This Movie Changed Me: onbeing.org/series/this-movie-changed-me
Becoming Wise: onbeing.org/series/becoming-wise
Image by Andi Sapey
