Ep. 237: Walter Benjamin Analyzes Violence (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

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🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On "Critique of Violence" (1921). What is violence? Benjamin gives us a taxonomy: law-creating, law-preserving, mythological, and divine. Then he deconstructs his own distinctions to demonstrate that all state power is rotten through its being founded on and continually re-established by violence or the threat of it.

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0:00.0	The partially examined life relies on your support.
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0:05.4	please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com slash support.
0:16.4	You are listening to the partially examined life,
0:18.2	a podcast by some guys who have one point set on doing philosophy
0:21.1	for living, but then thought better of it.
0:22.8	Our question for episode 237 is,
0:25.2	what is violence?
0:26.3	And we'll be discussing Walter Benjamin's essay,
0:28.5	critique of violence from 1920.
0:30.6	For more information, please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.
0:33.3	This is Mark Lensmeyer, neither law making nor law preserving
0:36.5	in Madison, Wisconsin.
0:37.6	This is Seth Paschin in Austin, Texas.
0:40.2	This is Wes AllOne, rebelling against mythical violence
0:44.0	in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:45.8	All right, so this is a, I want to say continuation,
0:48.2	but it was kind of up in the air whether this was going
0:50.1	to go before, it was actually supposed to go before,
0:52.2	episode 236, where we talked about Judith Butler's
0:55.2	current book, The Force of Dawn Violence.
0:57.0	This Walter Benjamin essay spelled Benjamin,
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