Toward the Critique of Violence by Walter Benjamin, Peter Fen... - 9780804749527

Toward the Critique of ViolenceA Critical Edition\nAuthor(s): Walter Benjamin, Peter Fenves, Julia Ng\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804749527, 978-0804749527\nSynopsis\nMarking 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. \n\n 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 al.