Creature Politics Notes 3
Walter Benjamin on Law as Violence...
In the 1920s, the Jewish writer Walter Benjamin wrote an essay entitled Critique of Violence. Much to the confused disapproval of his friend Gershom Scholem, Benjamin had been reading tomes of protestant theology around that time. Although Paul is never mentioned in Critique of Violence, I'm of the opinion that the essay owes something to his thought.
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