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Format: xii, 350 Seiten.

ISBN: 978-0-8047-4952-7 , 978-0-8047-4953-4

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: Ethics of pure will , Anti-cain: a postscript to Rudolf Leonhard's "Our final battle against weapons" , Reflections on violence , Politics and metaphysics , Sociology of violence: a contribution to the theory of social-formative forces

Language: English

Subjects: German Studies , Philosophy

URL: Cover

Author information: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940,

Author information: Cohen, Hermann, 1842-1918

Author information: Unger, Erich, 1887-1950

Author information: Hiller, Kurt, 1885-1972

Author information: Fenves, Peter D., 1960-

Author information: Lederer, Emil, 1882-1939

Author information: Sorel, Georges, 1847-1922

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Format: 1 online resource (368 pages)

ISBN: 1-5036-2768-3

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: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Note on the Translation of Benjamin’s Writings -- , Acknowledgments -- , Abbreviations and Conventions -- , INTRODUCTION -- , “TOWARD THE CRITIQUE OF VIOLENCE” -- , Associated Notes and Fragments -- , 1. 〈Notes toward a Work on the Category of Justice〉 -- , 2. 〈Vivification and Violence〉 -- , 3. 〈From “Life and Violence”〉 -- , 4. On Morality -- , 5. 〈All Unconditionality of the Will Leads to Evil〉 -- , 6. On Kantian Ethics -- , 7. 〈The Spontaneity of the I〉 -- , 8. 〈Ethics, Applied to History〉 -- , 9. Modes of History -- , 10. Methodical Modes of History -- , 11. Death -- , 12. 〈As Many Pagan Religions, So Many Natural Concepts of Guilt〉 -- , 13. On the Problem of Physiognomy and Prediction -- , 14. The Meaning of Time in the Moral World -- , 15. 〈1) World and Time〉 -- , 16. 〈Morality, Ethics〉 -- , 17. The Right to Apply Force / Use Violence Blätter für religiösen Sozialismus, I 4 -- , 18. Capitalism as Religion -- , 19. Notes on “Objective Mendacity” I -- , 20. Notes toward a Work on Lying II -- , 21. Schemata for the Psychophysical Problem -- , 22. Literatur zu einer ausgeführteren Kritik der Gewalt und zur Rechtsphilosophie -- , AFTERWORD Toward Another Critique of Violence -- , HERMANN COHEN, FROM ETHICS OF PURE WILL -- , KURT HILLER, “ANTI- CAIN: A POSTSCRIPT TO RUDOLF LEONHARD’S ‘OUR FINAL BATTLE AGAINST WEAPONS’ ” -- , GEORGES SOREL, FROM REFLECTIONS ON VIOLENCE -- , ERICH UNGER, FROM POLITICS AND METAPHYSICS -- , EMIL LEDERER, “SOCIOLOGY OF VIOLENCE: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF SOCIAL- FORMATIVE FORCES” -- , Glossary -- , Notes -- , Note on the Translators -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9780804749527

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780804749534

Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

DOI: 10.1515/9781503627680

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Format: xii, 350 Seiten

ISBN: 9780804749527 , 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: Ethics of pure will , Anti-cain: a postscript to Rudolf Leonhard's "Our final battle against weapons" , Reflections on violence , Politics and metaphysics , Sociology of violence: a contribution to the theory of social-formative forces

Language: English

Subjects: German Studies , Philosophy

Author information: Sorel, Georges 1847-1922

Author information: Hiller, Kurt 1885-1972

Author information: Fenves, Peter D. 1960-

Author information: Unger, Erich 1887-1950

Author information: Lederer, Emil 1882-1939

Author information: Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940

Author information: Cohen, Hermann 1842-1918

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 350 Seiten).

ISBN: 978-1-5036-2768-0

Uniform Title: Zur Kritik der Gewalt

Note: Ethics of pure will , Anti-cain: a postscript to Rudolf Leonhard's "Our final battle against weapons" , Reflections on violence , Politics and metaphysics , Sociology of violence: a contribution to the theory of social-formative forces

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover Benjamin, Walter Toward the critique of violence : a critical edition Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c2021 ISBN 978-0-8047-4952-7

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-8047-4953-4

Language: English

Subjects: German Studies , Philosophy

DOI: 10.1515/9781503627680

Author information: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940,

Author information: Cohen, Hermann, 1842-1918

Author information: Hiller, Kurt, 1885-1972

Author information: Unger, Erich 1887-1950

Author information: Fenves, Peter D., 1960-

Author information: Lederer, Emil, 1882-1939

Author information: Sorel, Georges, 1847-1922