The pariah is an extremely revealing traveler word. It is said to have originated in India, invented there in the 16th century by military personnel, missionaries, and scholars. Two centuries later, it would return and spread in the European sphere.

For the Enlightenment philosophers, distant hierarchical structures are a pretext to criticize domestic tyrannies. The discourse about the other is a discourse about the self. However, in the West where emancipation is liberated, it does not apply to all.

The pariah emerges as the neglected figure of the recent declaration of human rights. In political speeches and controversies, it represents slaves, 'free people of color,' Jews, women, the people, the proletariat...

Theater and literature propagate its image, and it acquires the traits of the cursed artist with an idealized marginalized character. Romantic culture celebrates its sensitivity, and the pariah gains value due to the persecutions against it, without, however, being liberated.

With erudition and flair, moving from literature to political theory and theoretical constructs (M. Weber, G. Simmel, or, above all, H. Arendt), Varika narrates these transformations and tracks the forms that, from the past to the present, speak of the wounds of all 'the discarded of the world.'

In this journey, it reminds us of the ever-relevant demand of the rebellious pariahs, who insistently seek to have every unique individual accepted within humanity.