...Peter Fenves Abstract This article shows that Walter Benjamin's initial characterization of the “sphere of moral relations” as divided by two mutually exclusive poles, law and justice, without a mediating third term such as “ethical life” or “moral education,” generates the basis for his critique...

...Marc Crépon; Micol Bez Abstract The object of this article is to show how, at the beginning of his essay “Toward the Critique of Violence,” Walter Benjamin uses the questions of the right to strike and law of war to exemplify the way in which the state monopoly has no other goal than to preserve...

...Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky Abstract Walter Benjamin's critique of violence assumes that violence is deeply intertwined with the division of time and space. Niobe serves as an example that allows Benjamin to give an account of the violent conditions of the order of time that is constituted under...

...Massimo Palma Abstract Although Baruch Spinoza was important for thinkers of his generation, Walter Benjamin seems to have completely ignored the philosopher. Spinoza's name appears just a few times in Benjamin's works, and Spinoza's thought never seems to have been relevant to him. The only place...

...Dario Gentili Abstract This article is focused on the analysis of paragraphs 10 and 11 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence.” The article focuses on two sets of fundamental claims: those addressing the function of the police within the legal order of the state and those addressing...

...Pablo Oyarzún Abstract This article offers a reading of the concluding paragraph of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence.” It discusses Benjamin's assertion that only a philosophical-historical approach can provide the key to a critique of violence in light of his essay's discussion...

...Petar Bojanić; Edward Ðjordević Abstract In paragraph 18 of “Toward the Critique of Violence,” the terms life , living , and violence , and the relations among them, complicate Walter Benjamin's justification of divine violence—his text's main discovery. This article seeks to reconstruct Benjamin's...

...Michelle Ty Abstract This essay offers a critique of contemporary regimes of migrant repression in light of Walter Benjamin's reflections on borders and their constitutive relation to legal violence. In paragraphs 15–17 of “Toward the Critique of Violence,” Benjamin evokes the legend of Niobe, who...

...Başak Ertür Abstract This article focuses on the discussion of general conscription in Walter Benjamin's 1921 essay “Toward the Critique of Violence.” In the essay, Benjamin presents conscription or compulsory military service alongside his discussions of police violence and capital punishment...

...Julia Ng Abstract What resources does philosophy have at its disposal for a critical analysis of the role of violence in a war of all against all? Faced with this question, Walter Benjamin discovers that legal positivism, which believes in the capacity to derive how law ought to be from the sheer...

...Anne-Lise François Abstract This article offers a partial commentary on the figures of parenthetical or bracketed power in paragraphs 12 and 13 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence.” Performing its own bracketing of the central question of the general strike, it focuses instead...

...David Lloyd Abstract This essay addresses Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence” to draw out the implications of the paradox he notes, that an exercise of a right, if it calls into question the legitimacy of the legal order, can be perceived by the state as violent, even where it is, strictly...

... that the general strike inherently raises around work, temporality, the idea of the proletariat, and communism, while engaging several important thinkers of the general strike (in particular W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter Benjamin, and Saidiya Hartman). Ultimately, the essay argues for approaching the general strike...

...Bernard E. Harcourt Abstract Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht's short-lived project for a critical theory journal, Krise und Kritik , foundered in 1931 on the shoals of positivism. Since then, a series of anti-foundational challenges to traditional critical theory has fragmented the landscape...

....” 74. Shakespeare, “Der Kauffmann von Venedig,” 177 . 75. Benjamin, “Critique of Violence,” 236 . Hereafter cited as CV . 76. Smith, Weird John Brown , 138 ; Martel, Divine Violence , 111–12 . 77. Benjamin, Working with Walter Benjamin , 58–59 ; Butler, Parting Ways...

... This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). sovereignty survivor Georges Bataille Franz Kafka Walter Benjamin The text before you was written as an introduction for a work on Franz Kafka. Initially, it wasn't written in French...

... whose past, present and future is constantly denied, and therefore robbed from her. Works Cited Benjamin Walter . “ On the Concept of History .” In Illuminations , 253 – 64 . New York : Schocken Books , 1969 . Harootunian Harry . “ Stirring the Ashes: A Conversation with Harry...

... moved from the question, “How do we read this text?” to another question: “What does it mean to read this text now?” We were a group of intellectuals from Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Chile, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States who had engaged with Walter Benjamin in our work...

...? Levantine Polemics around Edward Said's Orientalism .” Unpublished manuscript. Benjamin Walter . “ Theses on the Philosophy of History .” In Illuminations , edited by Arendt Hannah , 253 – 64 . New York : Schocken , 1968 . Bou Ali Nadia . “ Mahdi Amel's Colonial Mode...

... under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). souveraineté survivant Georges Bataille Franz Kafka Walter Benjamin Le texte que l'on va lire a été écrit pour servir d'introduction à un travail sur Kafka. Il a été écrit initialement dans ma langue survivante. Eh oui...