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 exilechanged 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 raisedvital 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.
Lyndsey Stonebridge
Placeless People [PDF ebook]
Writings, Rights, and Refugees
Placeless People [PDF ebook]
Writings, Rights, and Refugees
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Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● Pagini 240 ● ISBN 9780192517364 ● Editura Oxford University Press ● Publicat 2018 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 8543469 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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