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In: Schriftenreihe Schriften zur Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie 8
In: Bibliotheca iuridica
In: Opera classica 3
In: Philosophiae iuris
In: Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik$dAnnual review of law and ethics Band 11 (2003)
In: De Gruyter Lehrbuch
In: Critical times: interventions in global critical theory, Volume 2, Issue 2, p. 239-251
ISSN: 2641-0478
Abstract
What resources does philosophy have at its disposal for a critical analysis of the role of violence in a war of all against all? Faced with this question, Walter Benjamin discovers that legal positivism, which believes in the capacity to derive how law ought to be from the sheer concept of a "correct" law, is constitutively blind to the possibility that values may be misaligned with law, and that the basic structures of law and consensus might come after the fact of power. Drawing on the work of contemporaneous legal theorist Leonard Nelson, this article argues that Benjamin developed a potent critique of the dialectic of recognition at work in the legitimation of violence, making way instead for an analysis of what remains unrecognizable to the normative order: power, loitering as a "nonvalue" in the gap between values and legal ends.
In: Parliaments, estates & representation: Parlements, états & représentation, Volume 19, Issue 1, p. 1-13
ISSN: 1947-248X
In: Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie
In: Beiheft 41 = N.F., 4
In: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Germanistische Abteilung, Volume 128, Issue 1, p. 506-508
ISSN: 2304-4861
In: History of political thought, Volume 28, Issue 3, p. 496-519
ISSN: 0143-781X
In: Studien zur Rechtsphilosophie und Rechtstheorie 9