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

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In this episode we welcome Dr. Ashley Bohrer to discuss Walter Benjamin’s 1921 essay “Critique of Violence”. We talk about the relationship between violence and the law, reflect on the limits of institutional power for emancipatory projects, and get really real about the spiritual dimension of justice. Keep your messianism weak, comrades.

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Pedagogies for Peace podcast: https://kroc.nd.edu/research/intersectionality/pedagogies-for-peace-podcast/

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Walter Benjamin, “Critique of Violence,” trans. Edmund Jephcott, in Selected Writings Volume I: 1913-1926, eds. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996).

Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

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Keanu Clark

Benjamin has a great reading of Leibniz's Monadology from secondary literature I've seen; also I wonder if influence on Kabbalah can be traced back to sources that go on to influence the Islamicate Mysticism studied by Henry Corbin and Christian Jambet: Mulla Sadra and Divine Violence?