Abstract
Revolution, Revelation, Responsibility: Emancipatory Futures in Benjamin and Habermas
Highlights
In order to clarify the functions of violence within the legal order of the modern state, Walter Benjamin does not claim that the state’s application of violence is unjust
He interprets and critiques the very existence of a criterion of just violence whereby only some violence is legitimized. Benjamin concludes that this criterion is in place to justify only those uses of violence that serve as a means to the establishment and preservation of the current rule of law
Based on a critique of the instrumental use of legal violence, Benjamin argues that this violence inevitably will serve the interests of state power, and he concludes that the only remedy to this situation is the total annihilation of the legal order
Summary
In order to clarify the functions of violence within the legal order of the modern state, Walter Benjamin does not claim that the state’s application of violence is unjust. Benjamin concludes that this criterion is in place to justify only those uses of violence that serve as a means to the establishment and preservation of the current rule of law.
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