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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 565–576.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Honaida Ghanim Even as the law grants Jews an exclusive right to self-determination in Israel, it does not demarcate the borders of the state. Instead, the law situates the state in the Land of Israel, that is to say, the historical land of Palestine that extends from the Mediterranean Sea...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 577–587.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Lana Tatour 5. Halbfinger and Kershner, “Israeli Law Declares.” 6. O'Toole, “Deepening Apartheid.” 7. Tatour, “New Law Old News.” 8. Jabareen and Bishara, “The Jewish Nation-State Law,” 46 . 9. The term “liberal settler colonial state” has been coined...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 330–337.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of legal violence, and in light of his discovery of radically different types of violence. Benjamin argues that the legal order remains enclosed in a cycle of law-positing and law-preserving violence. Moreover, the legal order inherits the essential trait of myth and of mythic violence: ambiguity...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 68–86.
Published: 01 April 2020
...raúl rodríguez freire; Paco Brito Núñez Abstract Joseph Townsend’s Dissertation on the Poor Laws (1786) advances the thesis that aid to the poor generates more poverty. It is a work that twists and traduces a number of bibliographic sources in order to produce its famous theorem about goats...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 456–463.
Published: 01 December 2020
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 209–220.
Published: 01 August 2019
...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...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 239–251.
Published: 01 August 2019
...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...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 270–284.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., and as one manifestation of legal violence in which law-preserving and law-positing forms of violence coincide and mix. This article proposes that Benjamin's discussion of conscription should be read as a formal model for understanding how legal subjectification in the modern state works more generally...
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Critical Times (2021) 4 (3): 562–564.
Published: 01 December 2021
...The Editors Abstract This is a roundtable discussion about the Basic Law: Israel—The Nation State of the Jewish People, 2018. The contributions by Honaida Ghanim and Lana Tatour situate this law in the longer legal and political history of Israeli settler colonialism in Palestine. The third...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 252–260.
Published: 01 August 2019
...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...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 295–305.
Published: 01 August 2019
... the rule of law. The example of Korah helps to illustrate the difference between divine violence and legal violence and to underscore the centrality of time's passage for the moral world. Unlike in the example of Niobe, whose children are condemned to death as punishment for her guilt, the children...
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Critical Times (2022) 5 (1): 150–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... The essay attempts to demonstrate how the “liberal” has become the cultural logic of a communal-fascist regime, insofar as the regime is harnessing universities to its project of redefining citizenship in line with its recently passed citizenship laws. In this context, how might a hijacked “idea...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 221–238.
Published: 01 August 2019
... where Benjamin quotes a text of Spinoza's, albeit between the lines, is in “Toward the Critique of Violence” (1921). Still, in this essay Benjamin is far from enthusiastic about the author of the Ethics . He names Spinoza as a proponent of natural law theory, which Benjamin dismisses in his search...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 306–319.
Published: 01 August 2019
... mythic retribution and Grenzsetzung (border-positing), Benjamin offers insight into current practices of criminalizing border crossers and militarizing borderlands. Some promise for the negation of the order that secures those who traverse the border as fatalities of law is found in the essay's final...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 109–130.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... In this respect, the observation that BDS seeks “the destruction of the state of Israel” finds its rationale and its limit within the logic of the “Critique of Violence” but also points beyond the institutions of rights, states, and law. At the outset of this essay, I wish to acknowledge that my reflections...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 87–108.
Published: 01 April 2020
...raúl rodríguez freire Resumen A Dissertation on the Poor Laws , de Joseph Townsend, levanta la hipótesis de que la ayuda a los pobres reproduce la pobreza. Para ello, recurre a unas fuentes bibliográficas que, traducidas y tergiversadas, le permitirán producir su famoso teorema de las cabras y los...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 528–533.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Zachary Manfredi Abstract This piece discusses the author's experiences in the Occupy protests at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2011 and the initial travel-ban litigation in 2017. It contrasts the different roles law and violence played in each and reflects on the significance of mass...
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Critical Times (2020) 3 (3): 534–550.
Published: 01 December 2020
... are actually rooted in the iron laws of ancient hierarchies intrinsically opposed to the self-historicizing and well-informed democratic aspirations of student activism. To complete the story of the anti-caste movement, the role of gender intersecting with caste needs to be infused into the historical anti...
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Critical Times (2023) 6 (1): 114–142.
Published: 01 April 2023
... that in Adorno a particular sense of the subject, with and against Adorno's language, is advanced: the subject of the law, right, property, and whiteness, what one might call the subject of settler life. I suggest that this is a sense of the subject that privileges its ethicality in relation to social violence...
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Critical Times (2019) 2 (2): 261–269.
Published: 01 August 2019
... does not consider the realm of pure means, because—as he later argues in relation to pure ends—its possibility lies outside of the legal order. One could thus argue that, for Benjamin, there is a correlation between pure ends and pure means as they relate to the law, a correlation that is in keeping...
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