Judith Butler and the fear of gender
In the 1990s a new philosophy helped open up alternative ways of being. Nobody predicted it would lead to war.
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Lyndsey Stonebridge
Lyndsey Stonebridge is professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience.
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What Hannah Arendt can teach us about work in the time of Covid-19
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Simone de Beauvoir’s second coming
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