What do we talk about when we talk about «Critique of Violence» today? On Walter Benjamin and the relationship between Democracy and Terror

The purpose of this article is to elucidate Benjamin’s Critique of violence (Zur Kritik der Gewalt, 1921) from the perspective of political systems and democracies today, and particularly their own history of violence. Has the recent history of democracy become another history of violence? Or is it...

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Main Author: Eduardo Maura Zorita
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Pontificia Comillas 2013-11-01
Series:Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica
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Online Access:https://revistas.upcomillas.es/index.php/pensamiento/article/view/1647