Zizek E Benjamin

This article presents the theme of violence from two philosophical perspectives: that of Slavoj iek and that of Walter Benjamin. These two perspectives share the idea that violence is not just an epiphenomenon of modernity society, but its structural element. This means that, for both iek and Benjamin, violence is the foundation of law and the symbolic field that guarantees the pseudo stability of the social order. But if violence is the essence of the legal and institutional order of modern society, then it is necessary, in order not to fall into deep nihilism, to

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