Benjaminian

English Etymology en Benjamin -ian. Adjective Pertaining to German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin or his views. en 1996 Michael P. Steinberg Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History 22 different perspectives on the applicability of Benjaminian positions for the practice of a cultural history. en 2021 Judith Butler The Force of Nonviolence He further finds that: “Gewalt, by means of the conversion it effects, transforms itself into another Gewalt; violence becomes power and authority.” Hannah Arendt, for whom power and violence are firmly distinguished, would surely object to this formulation, but it remains unclear whether she would have a sufficient rejoinder to the problem of legal violence, whether in its Benjaminian or Hobbesian form. en eponyms