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Hannah Arendt's lessons for our times: the banality of evil, totalitarianism and statelessness


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Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the most influential political theorists and philosophers of the 20th Century. In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA explores three of Arendt's key concepts – totalitarianism, statelessness and the banality of evil – to explain the importance of her thinking for our times. 

Speaker: Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA, Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham    

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