Giorgio Agamben e Hannah Arendt - Nós, Refugiados | Para Lá dos Direitos do Homem

A dialogue between decades and borders, as central to the thinking of both authors as it is urgent in light of the walls and barbed wire erected before our eyes.

In 1943, fleeing Nazi Germany and exiled in the United States, Hannah Arendt wrote, in the language of the country that had welcomed her, the essay "We, Refugees," published in the Jewish magazine The Menorah Journal.

In it, she addressed the identity crisis of the Jewish people, problematizing the refugee condition and the vaunted virtues of their assimilation.

Half a century later, in "Beyond the Rights of Man," originally published in the newspaper Libération, Giorgio Agamben engaged with Arendt's text to reflect on the political constraint and the very meaning of the refugee figure.

This volume revisits this dialogue between decades and borders, as central to the thinking of both authors as it is urgent in light of the walls and barbed wire erected.