Undoing Legal Violence: Walter Benjamin's and Giorgio Agamben's Aesthetics of Pure Means |
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| Authors: | Benjamin Morgan |
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| Affiliation: | University of California, Berkeley, 7408 Dwindle Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States of America |
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| Abstract: | Giorgio Agamben calls for a 'playful' relation to law as a way to counteract its inherent violence. Such a relation would prevent law from functioning as a means to an end, instead treating it as a 'pure means.' This article evaluates the significance of Agamben's proposal and of the concept of pure means, arguing that both implicitly draw on a Kantian model of aesthetic experience. |
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