Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy

Volume 54, 2018

Philosophy of Law

Karla Pinhel Ribeiro
Pages 83-87

Law and Violence in Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin

The paper investigates the 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.