Volume 59, Issue 1, Winter 2015
Ashley Bohrer
Pages 133-138
Critique and Violence
A Response to Andrew Benjamin's Working With Walter Benjamin
This paper responds to Andrew Benjamin’s recent text on Walter Benjamin by interrogating both philosophers’ conceptualizations of violence. Walter Benjamin remains one of the twentieth century’s most prescient thinkers of violence and analyses of his work, I argue, must reckon with this aspect of his work in order to ground the possibilities his texts hold for the contemporary world.