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Beyond Human Rights

  • Giorgio Agamben (author)
Chapter of: Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds(pp. 109–116)

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TitleBeyond Human Rights
ContributorGiorgio Agamben (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0131.1.07
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/extraterritorialities-in-occupied-worlds/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightAgamben, Giorgio
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2016-02-16
Long abstractIn 1943, Hannah Arendt pub-lished an article titled “We Refugees” in a small English-language Jewish publication, the Menorah Journal. At the end of this brief but significant piece of writing, after having polemi-cally sketched the portrait of Mr. Cohn, the assimilated Jew who, after having been 150 percent German, 150 percent Viennese, 150 percent French, must bitterly realize in the end that “on ne parvient pas deux fois,” she turns the condition of countryless refugee — a condition which she herself was living — upside down in order to present it as the paradigm of a new historical consciousness. The refugees who have lost all rights and who, however, no longer want to be assimilated at all costs in a new national identity, but want instead to contemplate lu-cidly their condition, receive in exchange for assured unpopularity a price-less advantage. “History is no longer a closed book to them and politics is no longer the privilege of Gentiles. They know that the outlawing of the Jewish people of Europe has been followed closely by the outlawing of most Europe-an nations. Refugees driven from country to country represent the vanguard of their peoples.”
Page rangepp. 109–116
Print length8 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Giorgio Agamben

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