What does it take to properly humanitarianise politics? How can we account for the failures of the humanitarian past? Does the humanitarian impetus even have a role in play in societies that have seemingly abandoned their utopian ambitions? Addressing such questions, Juliano Fiori from Save the Children asks us to account more fully for the intellectual history of the humanitarian condition, recognise its relationship to violence, and rethink the idea of a society of the humanitarian minimum.