Toward the Critique of Violence - Couverture souple

Benjamin, Walter

 
9780804749534: Toward the Critique of Violence
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0804749531 ISBN 13 : 9780804749534
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German Jewish philosopher. Peter Fenves is Joan and Serapta Harrison Professor of Literature, Northwestern University. Julia Ng is Lecturer in Critical Theory and codirector of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804749531
ISBN 13 
9780804749534
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
Éditeur
Fenves Peter, Ng Julia
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0804749523 ISBN 13 :  9780804749527
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2021
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