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CLAUDE LEFORT is pointless to dwell upon precisely how the Roman notions ofpatria,communitas, and populusare reactivated and res ...

THE THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL?  What conclusions are we to draw from this brief incursion into the theologico-political labyrinth? ...

Violence in the State of Exception Reflections on Theologico-Political Motifs in Benjamin and Schmitt Marc de Wilde Two months a ...

VIOLENCE IN THE STATE OF EXCEPTION sovereignty constantly threatened to dissolve into countless acts of nonstate violence. Two o ...

MARC DE WILDE continuously undermining the fragile democracy of the Weimar Republic, the conserva- tive revolutionaries in fact ...

VIOLENCE IN THE STATE OF EXCEPTION attempt to appropriate divine violence within the sphere of politics and law. Thus, while Sch ...

MARC DE WILDE inadequacy—an inadequacy that affects the core of these laws’ legitimacy. A similar im- perfection characterizes t ...

VIOLENCE IN THE STATE OF EXCEPTION with ‘‘martial law.’’ The state of exception is, on the contrary, beyond the scope of positiv ...

MARC DE WILDE Whoever ignores the political—or polemical—origin of the decision is, according to Taubes, ‘‘immoral, for he does ...

VIOLENCE IN THE STATE OF EXCEPTION for example, points to similarities between the secular concept of the state of exception and ...

MARC DE WILDE In the first part of the text, Benjamin examines what this notion of violence as a manifestation entails for the u ...

VIOLENCE IN THE STATE OF EXCEPTION apply. Because of this fusion of lawmaking and law-preserving violence, Benjamin sug- gests, ...

MARC DE WILDE as such, thus expiating all possible guilt. Whereas the first form of violence is a ‘‘bloody violence over mere li ...

VIOLENCE IN THE STATE OF EXCEPTION within the state of exception, when the worst violence has become possible, the sovereign rul ...

MARC DE WILDE as such. This circumstance is even more troubling than the physical mutilations and sexual abuses. The detainees o ...

Critique, Coercion, and Sacred Life in Benjamin’s ‘‘Critique of Violence’’ Judith Butler I would like to take up the question of ...

JUDITH BUTLER possibility of a nonviolent violence, and in what follows I hope to consider that possibility in Benjamin’s essay. ...

BENJAMIN’S ‘‘CRITIQUE OF VIOLENCE’’ preserving and enforcing law, and thus the site where law might be arrested, cease to work, ...

JUDITH BUTLER course to Benjamin’s notion of the messianic can one see how the apprehension of a suffering that belongs to the d ...

BENJAMIN’S ‘‘CRITIQUE OF VIOLENCE’’ coercive and guilt-inducing law, Benjamin invokes the commandment as mandating only that an ...