Divine Violence Suffered: Another Reading of Walter Benjamin’s Toward the Critique of Violence
Benjamin’s essay Toward the Critique of Violence has often irritated readers. This is even more true of his concept of divine violence, which is defined as “law-annihilating” and goes against legally sanctioned state sovereignty. In this paper, I present a new reading of both Benjamin’s essay and di...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Year: 2024, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 579-593 |
| Further subjects: | B
Sovereignty
B Justice B Divine Violence B nonviolent resistance B Critique of Violence B Walter Benjamin |
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