Much is written about nationalism: in favor, those who aspire to have their own state; Against, those who already have it. This book speaks of nationalism, but in another sense, because it questions any form of belonging, whether it is called State, Homeland or Nation.

The book begins with a mention of the Tower of Babel. Those people wanted to build a monolithic city that failed because they could not prevent them from talking and thinking on their own. Two models of coexistence are insinuated here: that of the closed city, attached to the land, or that of the dispersion that followed after the failed experiment.

Humanity did not learn its lesson. He thought, with Aristotle, that only the one who belongs to a polis is human and the stateless person is inhuman. Land of Babel dismantles that original misunderstanding by following the trail of the minority that did know how to read what happened, turning the diaspora into a form of existence. At a time like the present when the State is showing signs of exhaustion, because there is emigration and because there was Auschwitz, the diaspora is presented as the post-national alternative to nationalism.