Format:
xii, 350 Seiten
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1 Faksimile
ISBN:
9780804749527
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9780804749534
Uniform Title:
Zur Kritik der Gewalt
Content:
"Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contemporaneous texts to which his essay refers. Readers thus encounter for the first time in English provocative arguments about law and violence advanced by Hermann Cohen, Kurt Hiller, Erich Unger, and Emil Lederer. A new translation of selections from Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence further illuminates Benjamin's critical program. The volume also includes, for the first time in any language, a bibliography Benjamin drafted for the expansion of the essay and the development of a corresponding philosophy of law. An extensive introduction and afterword provide additional context. With its challenging argument concerning violence, law, and justice-which addresses such topical matters as police violence, the death penalty, and the ambiguous force of religion-Benjamin's work is as important today as it was upon its publication in Weimar Germany a century ago"--
Note:
Originally published in German under the title Zur Kritik der Gewalt
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Translated by Peter Fenves and Julia Ng
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781503627680
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Benjamin, Walter, 1892 - 1940 Toward the Critique of Violence Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781503627680
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940 Zur Kritik der Gewalt
Author information:
Fenves, Peter D. 1960-
Author information:
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
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