"I am a young writer and essayist for whom discovering your books last year has represented a decisive experience. May I express here my gratitude to you, and that of those who, along with me, in the gap between past and future, feel all the urgency of working in the direction you pointed out."
-Fragmento de una carta de Giorgio Agamben a Hannah Arendt en 1970, cuando el primero tenía 26 años. Tomado de Vivian Liska, "A Lawless Legacy: Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben", en M. Goldoni and C. McCorkindale, Hannah Arendt and the Law (2012) p. 80.