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Marking 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. 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 also includes, for the
first time in any language, a bibliography Benjamin drafted for the
expansion of the essay and the development of a corresponding
philosophy of law. An extensive introduction and afterword provide
additional context. With its challenging argument concerning
violence, law, and justice—which addresses such topical matters
as police violence, the death penalty, and the ambiguous force of
religion—Benjamin's work is as important today as it was upon its
publication in Weimar Germany a century ago.
Two Studies of Friedrich Hoelderlin shows how the poet enacts a
radical theory of meaning that culminates in a unique and still
groundbreaking concept of revolution, one that begins with a
revolutionary understanding of language. The product of an intense
engagement with both Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, the book
presents Werner Hamacher's major attempts at developing a critical
practice commensurate with the immensity of Hoelderlin's late
writings. These essays offer an incisive and innovative combination
of critical theory and deconstruction while also identifying where
influential critics like Heidegger fail to do justice to the poet's
astonishing radicality. Readers will not only come away with a new
appreciation of Hoelderlin's poetic and political-theoretical
achievements but will also discover the motivating force behind
Hamacher's own achievements as a literary scholar and political
theorist. An introduction by Julia Ng and an afterword by Peter
Fenves provide further information about these studies and the
academic and theoretical context in which they were composed.
Two Studies of Friedrich Hoelderlin shows how the poet enacts a
radical theory of meaning that culminates in a unique and still
groundbreaking concept of revolution, one that begins with a
revolutionary understanding of language. The product of an intense
engagement with both Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, the book
presents Werner Hamacher's major attempts at developing a critical
practice commensurate with the immensity of Hoelderlin's late
writings. These essays offer an incisive and innovative combination
of critical theory and deconstruction while also identifying where
influential critics like Heidegger fail to do justice to the poet's
astonishing radicality. Readers will not only come away with a new
appreciation of Hoelderlin's poetic and political-theoretical
achievements but will also discover the motivating force behind
Hamacher's own achievements as a literary scholar and political
theorist. An introduction by Julia Ng and an afterword by Peter
Fenves provide further information about these studies and the
academic and theoretical context in which they were composed.
Marking 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. 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 also includes, for the
first time in any language, a bibliography Benjamin drafted for the
expansion of the essay and the development of a corresponding
philosophy of law. An extensive introduction and afterword provide
additional context. With its challenging argument concerning
violence, law, and justice-which addresses such topical matters as
police violence, the death penalty, and the ambiguous force of
religion-Benjamin's work is as important today as it was upon its
publication in Weimar Germany a century ago.
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