Towards the Critique of Violence

Brendan Moran is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary, Canada. Carlo Salzani is a translator and author based in Münster, Germany and editor, with Brendan Moran, of Philosophy and Kafka (2013).

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The Contributors

Introduction: On the Actuality of the ‘Critique of Violence’
Brendan Moran and Carlo Salzani

Part I: Benjamin’s Critique of Violence
1. Techniques of Agreement, Diplomacy, Lying Bettine Menke
2. The Ambiguity of Ambiguity in Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’, Alison Ross
3. Benjamin’s Niobe, Amir Ahmadi
4. Nature, Decision, and Muteness, Brendan Moran
5. Variations of Fate Antonia Birnbaum

Part II: Agamben’s Readings of Benjamin
6. From Benjamin’s bloßes Leben to Agamben’s nuda vita: A Genealogy, Carlo Salzani
7. Agamben’s Critique of Sacrificial Violence, J. Colin McQuillan
8. Agamben, Benjamin and the Indifference of Violence, William Watkin
9. Suchness and the Threshold between Possession and Violence, Paolo Bartoloni
10. Violence Without Law? On Pure Violence as a Destituent Power, Thanos Zartaloudis
11. The Anarchist Life we are Already Living: Benjamin and Agamben on Bare Life and the Resistance to Sovereignty, James R. Martel
12. Benjamin and Agamben on Kafka, Judaism and the Law, Vivian Liska
13. Expropriated Experience: Agamben Reading Benjamin, Reading Kant Alex Murray

Appendix
On the Limits of Violence Giorgio Agamben

Index