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Placeless People - Writings, Rights, and Refugees (Hardcover)
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Placeless People - Writings, Rights, and Refugees (Hardcover)
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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.
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