RT Book
T1 Toward the critique of violence: a critical edition
A1 Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
A2 Fenves, Peter D. 1960-
A2 Ng, Julia
LA English
PP Stanford, California
PB Stanford University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/174231404X
AB "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"--
NO Originally published in German under the title Zur Kritik der Gewalt
NO Translated by Peter Fenves and Julia Ng
NO Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
CN B105.V5
SN 9780804749527
SN 9780804749534
K1 Violence : Philosophy
K1 Law : Philosophy
K1 Justice (Philosophy)
K1 Benjamin, Walter : 1892-1940 : Zur Kritik der Gewalt