Europe
REFUGEES AND THE RIGHTS OF THE “RIGHTLESS”
In light of the refugee crisis that is dividing Europe, it is urgent to re-read the German born essayist Hannah Arendt. In one particularly enlightening chapter of her book on the origins of totalitarianism, she notes how a new category of human beings emerged in the 1930s: the “rightless”. These people were deprived of belonging […]
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