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Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1474241891
ISBN-13
9781474241892
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Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Towards the Critique of Violence : Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben
Language
English
Subject
General, Criticism, Semiotics & Theory, Violence in Society, Political
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Social Science
Series
Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy Ser.
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Trade Paperback
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27.5 Oz
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6 in
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Reviews
"Agamben's relationship with Walter Benjamin is decisive and yet complex, and this is above all the case for Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence,' a dense text in its own right. In this volume centered on Benjamin's 'Critique' and Agamben's reading of it, the authors make significant contributions to our understanding of a text that has attained an urgent 'legibility' in the present moment and of a contemporary intellectual project that at once extends and betrays it." -- Adam Kotsko, Assistant Professor of Humanities, Shimer College, USA "The articles in this volume take up the challenge of rereading Benjamin after Agamben, and do so with the utmost seriousness, erudition, argumentativeness and incisiveness. Clarifying without simplifying, and extending without falsification, this collection will be indispensable not only for students and scholars of Benjamin and Agamben, but for its critical discussions concerning the relations between myth, law, violence nand justice." -- Justin Dominic Clemens, Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia, "Agamben's relationship with Walter Benjamin is decisive and yet complex, and this is above all the case for Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence,' a dense text in its own right. In this volume centered on Benjamin's 'Critique' and Agamben's reading of it, the authors make significant contributions to our understanding of a text that has attained an urgent 'legibility' in the present moment and of a contemporary intellectual project that at once extends and betrays it." -- Adam Kotsko, Assistant Professor of Humanities, Shimer College, USA "The articles in this volume take up the challenge of rereading Benjamin after Agamben, and do so with the utmost seriousness, erudition, argumentativeness and incisiveness. Clarifying without simplifying, and extending without falsification, this collection will be indispensable not only for students and scholars of Benjamin and Agamben, but for its critical discussions concerning the relations between myth, law, violence nand justice." -- Justin Dominic Clemens, Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia "Rather than flaws to be lamented or eliminated, the implicit disagreements and contradictions among the pieces are perhaps the book's strongest quality in that they capture the spirit of Benjamin's and Agamben's writing better than any tidy analysis. For this reason, the collection is a valuable addition to the existing scholarship." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
303.6/01
Table Of Content
Abbreviations The Contributors Introduction: On the Actuality of the 'Critique of Violence' Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani Part I: Benjamin's Critique of Violence 1. Techniques of Agreement, Diplomacy, Lying Bettine Menke 2. The Ambiguity of Ambiguity in Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence', Alison Ross 3. Benjamin's Niobe, Amir Ahmadi 4. Nature, Decision, and Muteness, Brendan Moran 5. Variations of Fate Antonia Birnbaum Part II: Agamben's Readings of Benjamin 6. From Benjamin's bloßes Leben to Agamben's nuda vita: A Genealogy, Carlo Salzani 7. Agamben's Critique of Sacrificial Violence, J. Colin McQuillan 8. Agamben, Benjamin and the Indifference of Violence, William Watkin 9. Suchness and the Threshold between Possession and Violence, Paolo Bartoloni 10. Violence Without Law? On Pure Violence as a Destituent Power, Thanos Zartaloudis 11. The Anarchist Life we are Already Living: Benjamin and Agamben on Bare Life and the Resistance to Sovereignty, James R. Martel 12. Benjamin and Agamben on Kafka, Judaism and the Law, Vivian Liska 13. Expropriated Experience: Agamben Reading Benjamin, Reading Kant Alex Murray Appendix On the Limits of Violence Giorgio Agamben Index
Synopsis
In the past two and a half decades, Walter Benjamin's early essay 'Towards the Critique of Violence' (1921) has taken a central place in politico-philosophic debates. The complexity and perhaps even the occasional obscurity of Benjamin's text have undoubtedly contributed to the diversity, conflict, and richness of contemporary readings. Interest has heightened following the attention that philosophers such as Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben have devoted to it. Agamben's own interest started early in his career with his 1970 essay, 'On the Limits of Violence', and Benjamin's essay continues to be a fundamental reference in Agamben's work. Written by internationally recognized scholars, Towards the Critique of Violence is the first book to explore politico-philosophic implications of Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence' and correlative implications of Benjamin's resonance in Agamben's writings. Topics of this collection include mythic violence, the techniques of non-violent conflict resolution, ambiguity, destiny or fate, decision and nature, and the relation between justice and thinking. The volume explores Agamben's usage of certain Benjaminian themes, such as Judaism and law, bare life, sacrifice, and Kantian experience, culminating with the English translation of Agamben's 'On the Limits of Violence'., In the past two and a half decades, Walter Benjamin's early essay 'Towards the Critique of Violence' (1921) has taken a central place in politico-philosophic debates. The complexity and perhaps even the occasional obscurity of Benjamin's text have undoubtedly contributed to the diversity, conflict, and richness of contemporary readings. Interest has heightened following the attention that philosophers such as Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben have devoted to it. Agamben's own interest started early in his career with his 1970 essay, 'On the Limits of Violence', and Benjamin's essay continues to be a fundamental reference in Agamben's work.Written by internationally recognized scholars, Towards the Critique of Violence is the first book to explore politico-philosophic implications of Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence' and correlative implications of Benjamin's resonance in Agamben's writings. Topics of this collection include mythic violence, the techniques of non-violent conflict resolution, ambiguity, destiny or fate, decision and nature, and the relation between justice and thinking. The volume explores Agamben's usage of certain Benjaminian themes, such as Judaism and law, bare life, sacrifice, and Kantian experience, culminating with the English translation of Agamben's 'On the Limits of Violence'.
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