Ep. 237: Walter Benjamin Analyzes Violence (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

• Episode: Ep. 237: Walter Benjamin Analyzes Violence (Part One)
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• Duration: 00:44:19
• Published: 2020-03-02 16:52

On "Critique of Violence" (1921). What is violence? Benjamin gives us a taxonomy: law-creating, law-preserving, mythological, and divine. Then he deconstructs his own distinctions to demonstrate that all state power is rotten through its being founded on and continually re-established by violence or the threat of it.

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