Benjaminian

comparative more Benjaminian · superlative most Benjaminian

1. Pertaining to German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin or his views.

   […] different perspectives on the applicability of Benjaminian positions for the practice of a cultural history.

   1996, Michael P. Steinberg, Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History, page 22

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   He further finds that: “Gewalt, by means of the conversion it effects, transforms itself into another Gewalt; violence becomes power and authority.” Hannah Arendt, for whom power and violence are firmly distinguished, would surely object to this formulation, but it remains unclear whether she would have a sufficient rejoinder to the problem of legal violence, whether in its Benjaminian or Hobbesian form.

   2021, Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence