Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition

by Walter Benjamin

Book Overview

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory.

The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contemporaneous texts to which his essay refers. Readers thus encounter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804749531
• ISBN13: 9780804749534
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.8"