Beschreibung:
Divine Violence maintains that the apparent unavoidability of sovereignty, to which many thinkers have succumbed, can be overcome with the assistance of Walter Benjamin.
PART ONE; Introduction: Sovereignty and temporality; The trap of sovereignty; Benjamin's dissipated eschatology; PART TWO; Waiting for Justice; Forgiveness and judgment; Sovereignty de-centered: The Hebrew Republic; Conclusion: Politics without mythology.