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Placeless People
Writings, Rights, and Refugees
In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote:
"Everywhere the word exile which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate."
Today’s refugee crisis has its origins in the political–and imaginative–history of the last century.
Exiles from other places have often caused trouble for ideas about sovereignty, law and nationhood. But the meanings of exile changed dramatically in the twentieth century. This book shows just how profoundly the calamity of statelessness shaped modern literature and thought.
For writers such as Hannah Arendt, Franz Kafka, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, Simone Weil, among others, the outcasts of the twentieth century raised vital questions about sovereignty, humanism and the future of human rights.
Placeless People
argues that we urgently need to reconnect with the moral and political imagination of these first chroniclers of the placeless condition.
