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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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What Is Cred in Life Is the Character of Life

Benjamine: What is cred in life is our ability to make realw you know what i'm talking about as divine attributes. And we can should and need always to be doing a little bit better than we currently are. By changing the world, i'm changing myself - there's also a reciprocal relationship with systems and worlds we're building. I think that really dialectical moment between, say, self and movement. It comes out a lot more in the later benjamin wence he makes his kind of marcisty turn. He characterizes this opposition between mythic and divine violence in a number of ways but one of them is that mythic violence does feel like it right

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