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26 | Wake Up and Choose Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin w/ Dr. Ashley Bohrer

What's Left of Philosophy

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Is There a Divine Violence?

Benimin: What divine violence really means is violence as pure means right. It can't be subordinated to any sort of end directed calculus. His worry here is that there is something central about institutions of collective life that are always going to have resort to either law founding or law preserving violence.

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