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Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben de Brendan Moran

Towards the Critique of Violence: Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy

Editat de Brendan Moran, Carlo Salzani
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 aug 2017
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474241892
ISBN-10: 1474241891
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:NIPPOD
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

First book of philosophical analyses focused on Benjamin's essay and Agamben's interpretations of it

Notă biografică

Brendan Moran is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary, Canada.Carlo Salzani is a translator and author based in Münster, Germany and editor, with Brendan Moran, of Philosophy and Kafka (2013).

Cuprins

AbbreviationsThe ContributorsIntroduction: On the Actuality of the 'Critique of Violence'Brendan Moran and Carlo SalzaniPart I: Benjamin's Critique of Violence1. Techniques of Agreement, Diplomacy, Lying Bettine Menke2. The Ambiguity of Ambiguity in Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence', Alison Ross3. Benjamin's Niobe, Amir Ahmadi4. Nature, Decision, and Muteness, Brendan Moran5. Variations of Fate Antonia BirnbaumPart II: Agamben's Readings of Benjamin6. From Benjamin's bloßes Leben to Agamben's nuda vita: A Genealogy, Carlo Salzani7. Agamben's Critique of Sacrificial Violence, J. Colin McQuillan8. Agamben, Benjamin and the Indifference of Violence, William Watkin9. Suchness and the Threshold between Possession and Violence, Paolo Bartoloni10. Violence Without Law? On Pure Violence as a Destituent Power, Thanos Zartaloudis11. The Anarchist Life we are Already Living: Benjamin and Agamben on Bare Life and the Resistance to Sovereignty, James R. Martel12. Benjamin and Agamben on Kafka, Judaism and the Law, Vivian Liska13. Expropriated Experience: Agamben Reading Benjamin, Reading Kant Alex MurrayAppendixOn the Limits of Violence Giorgio AgambenIndex

Recenzii

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.
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.
A rich collection that sometimes articulates existing problems in a new light, sometimes opens up unexpected contexts for the interpretation of both Benjamin and Agamben, at other times points towards directions that their work may be taken to. ... As such, it is a welcome addition to the growing body of Agamben (and Benjamin) scholarship.
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.