{"product_id":"placeless-people-lyndsey-stonebridge-9780198797005","title":"Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees","description":"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. \u003cem\u003ePlaceless People\u003c\/em\u003e argues that we urgently need to reconnect with the moral and political imagination of these first chroniclers of the placeless condition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lyndsey Stonebridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198797001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198797005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/25\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019","brand":"Lyndsey Stonebridge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43914242097407,"sku":"9780198797005","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_2369e823-e9ac-4759-b5cf-ea194e364d89.jpg?v=1680641163","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/placeless-people-lyndsey-stonebridge-9780198797005","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}