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British literary historian and critic; professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham; author of We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience (2024).
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Three GuineasBook Virginia Woolf
In some ways, Three Guineas was the very late sequel to A Room of One’s Own, and it’s very well known as being Woolf’s great pacifist text.
Five Books interview: the best books on Human Rights and Literature
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If This Is a ManBook Primo Levi
Interestingly, the human rights lawyer Itamar Mann, who works for an organization called Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), sent a copy of If This Is a Man to the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Five Books interview: the best books on Human Rights and Literature
2021-04-08·fivebooks.com ↗
The Origins of TotalitarianismBook Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism is the first great book to try and understand totalitarianism.
Five Books interview: the best books on Human Rights and Literature
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This Mournable BodyBook Tsitsi Dangarembga
And then you have This Mournable Body, which is set after independence, where everything is just getting corrupted and relentlessly going wrong.
Five Books interview: the best books on Human Rights and Literature
2021-04-08·fivebooks.com ↗
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