- Title
- The creature before the law: Notes on Walter Benjamin's critique of violence
- Creator
- Abbott, Mathew
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/155343
- Identifier
- vital:11218
- Identifier
- ISSN:1325-9490
- Abstract
- Transforming as it does from an exemplar of meticulous philosophical analysis into an allusive political/messianic tract, Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" is representative of all that is most difficult about his work.
- Publisher
- Monash University
- Relation
- Colloquy: Text Theory Critique Vol. , no. 16 (2008), p. 1-17
- Rights
- Copyright © Monash University. This material is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC)(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). This means that, for non-commercial use, readers are free to share, reproduce, store or use the material published in Colloquy, as long as a proper citation acknowledges the author and the publisher. No part of this publication may be used for commercial purposes without the prior written approval of the Colloquy editors-in-chief.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- German Literature; Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940); Zur Kritik Der Gewalt; Critique of Violence; Prose; Treatment of Messianism; Violence
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