How Much Homeland Does a Human Being Need?

Authors

  • Detlev Claussen Leibniz Universität, Hannover

Keywords:

homeland, home, exile, strangeness, homelessness, anti-Semitism, xenophobia

Abstract

In the mid sixties Jean Améry formulated the question this essay starts with: how much homeland does a human being need? At that time it took some courage to pose this question; though things have changed. After long reflecting, Arméry came to a concise veredict: it is not good not to have a place where you can feel home. That is a striking formulation, and another question follows logically: how much homeland does a human being need, how much strangeness is he able to bear? In this essay I would like to go through the experiences of the dialectics of homelandness and foreigness and try to get to the core of these questions.

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Published

2016-02-17

How to Cite

Claussen, D. (2016). How Much Homeland Does a Human Being Need?. Constelaciones. Revista De Teoría Crítica, 5(5), 2–17. Retrieved from https://constelaciones-rtc.net/article/view/813

Issue

No. 5 (2013): Critical Theory of Subjectivity

Section

Essays

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