Volume 10, 2018
Contemporary Philosophy
Karla Pinhel Ribeiro
Pages 141-145
Law and Violence in Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin
The paper investigates concepts of law and violence in Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin, especially in their works On violence and Critique of violence. The main objective of the research is to find similarities and differences between the definitions of these concepts in the thought of these philosophers.
The main thesis of the research is the understanding that concepts of law and violence for Hannah Arendt are very different and the other hand, concepts of law and violence for Walter Benjamin apparently are the same.