1. <Notes toward a Work on the Category of Justice>

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note on the Translation of Benjamin’s Writings vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Abbreviations and Conventions xi
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. “TOWARD THE CRITIQUE OF VIOLENCE” 39
8. Associated Notes and Fragments
9. 1. <Notes toward a Work on the Category of Justice> 65
10. 2. <Vivification and Violence> 67
11. 3. <From “Life and Violence”> 68
12. 4. On Morality 69
13. 5. <All Unconditionality of the Will Leads to Evil> 70
14. 6. On Kantian Ethics 71
15. 7. <The Spontaneity of the I> 72
16. 8. <Ethics, Applied to History> 73
17. 9. Modes of History 75
18. 10. Methodical Modes of History 76
19. 11. Death 78
20. 12. <As Many Pagan Religions, So Many Natural Concepts of Guilt> 79
21. 13. On the Problem of Physiognomy and Prediction 80
22. 14. The Meaning of Time in the Moral World 81
23. 15. <1) World and Time> 83
24. 16. <Morality, Ethics> 85
25. 17. The Right to Apply Force / Use Violence Blätter für religiösen Sozialismus, I 4 86
26. 18. Capitalism as Religion 90
27. 19. Notes on “Objective Mendacity” I 93
28. 20. Notes toward a Work on Lying II 96
29. 21. Schemata for the Psychophysical Problem 98
30. 22. Literatur zu einer ausgeführteren Kritik der Gewalt und zur Rechtsphilosophie 108
31. AFTERWORD Toward Another Critique of Violence 113
32. HERMANN COHEN, FROM ETHICS OF PURE WILL 161
33. KURT HILLER, “ANTI- CAIN: A POSTSCRIPT TO RUDOLF LEONHARD’S ‘OUR FINAL BATTLE AGAINST WEAPONS’ ” 179
34. GEORGES SOREL, FROM REFLECTIONS ON VIOLENCE 194
35. ERICH UNGER, FROM POLITICS AND METAPHYSICS 214
36. EMIL LEDERER, “SOCIOLOGY OF VIOLENCE: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF SOCIAL- FORMATIVE FORCES” 233
37. Glossary 247
38. Notes 259
39. Note on the Translators 343
40. Index 345